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Homeland Security

Briefing

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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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*The Transportation Security Administration has put Ahura Scientific and CEIA USA under contract for Bottled Liquid Scanners. Ahura, which is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO], was awarded a potential $57.2 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for its TruScreen system. CEIA's potential $44.8 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity award is for its EMA-MS desktop system. TSA has not awarded either company an initial task order under the new contracts. Smiths Detection is also under contract with TSA for…

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