TSA Issues BAA for On-Person Screening; Looking to Improve Existing AIT Systems The Transportation Security Administration has issued a Targeted Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) requesting white papers with concepts to provide “near-term improvement of current security operations and capabilities” for on-person screening (OPS), to include shoe-scanning. In addition to footwear screening, the other technical topic areas under the BAA include enhanced detection performance and throughput, material discrimination, improved data visualization, synthetic data creation, and new countermeasure systems/process. The agency’s current…
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