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TSA Plans To Spend Nearly $400M on Body Scanners Through FY ’26

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 24th, 2015

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it plans to invest up to $395.5 million through fiscal year 2026 on people-screening technologies, mainly the body scanning types of machines currently being used at aviation security checkpoints, according to a new roadmap for the imaging technology published by the agency this month.While the agency has been testing next-generation body scanners—known as Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT)-2 systems—with multiple vendors and plans limited procurements of these in the near-term, it expects to begin replacing…

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