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CATSA Awards Smiths Detection $19M for AT X-Ray Systems

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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

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Smiths Detection has received a $19.1 million contract from the Canadian Air Transportation Security Authority (CATSA) to provide Advanced Technology (AT) X-Ray systems to screen passengers' carry-on bags at checkpoints. The award follows a $27.1 million contract CATSA gave to Smiths in Nov. 2009 for the same systems, the HI-SCAN 6040 aTiX and HI-SCAN 7555 aTiX multi-view scanners (TR2, Dec. 9, 2009). The two orders are part of the phased replacement of older single-view systems with advanced multi-view scanners in…

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