The Transportation Security Administration’s Innovation Task Force is evaluating Thruvision’s body scanner to screen employees at Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport to prevent potential insider threats. Austin Gould, TSA’s assistant administrator for Requirements and Capabilities Analysis, says the system reads energy emitted by people and can detect “with pretty significant accuracy whether or not someone has something under their clothing.” The agency is doing data collection on utility and performance to see if is “perhaps applicable across the enterprise,” he said…
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