The Transportation Security Administration has updated its Qualified Product List for Bottled Liquid Scanners, adding two additional products, Ahura Scientific’s TruScreen system and CEIA USA, LLC’s EMA-MS system. Ahura is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO]. So far TSA has awarded contracts to Ahura and Smiths Detection, whose RespondeR RCI is was first on the QPL (TR2, April 14 and April 28, and Oct. 14, 2009). CEIA’s EMA-MS is a desktop system that provides an operator an okay or alarm message within seconds of putting a bottle into the cavity of the analyzer.
ICx Technologies [ICXT] says it has received a contract from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to provide a virtual intrusion detection and monitoring system. The value of the award and the particulars of the technology being provided were not disclosed. ICx CEO Colin Cumming says of the work that “Our team has been pioneering this concept of wide area surveillance for over a decade.”