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Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 16th, 2018

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TSA Awards Smiths Detection Potential $500M for EDS SystemsSmiths Detection has received a whopping $500 million contract for medium-speed explosive detection systems (EDS) from the Transportation Security Administration. The potential $500 million award is the ceiling value. Smiths supplies its CTX 9800 EDS systems to TSA for the automatic screening of checked bags for explosives. TSA also plans to award contracts to L3 Technologies [LLL] and Leidos [LDOS] for their EDS systems. All three companies have certified EDS systems that…

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