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Canada Acquiring L-3’s Whole Body Imager For Airport Deployments

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Thursday, January 7th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker Canada's Transport Ministry on Monday said it will purchase and deploy 44 body scanners from L-3 Communications [LLL] for approximately $10.7 million, with delivery and installations to begin this month in response to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a passenger plane en route to Detroit from Amsterdam. The contract prices L-3's ProVision millimeter wave imagers at $242,300 apiece, including installation costs and spare parts, a spokeswoman for Transport Canada told Defense Daily yesterday. The first…

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