House appropriators in the summer proposed funding increases for new airport checkpoint baggage scanning technology in the fiscal year 2020 spending bill for the Transportation Security Administration while Senate appropriators in late September agreed to agency’s spending request for checkpoint computed tomography (CT) systems, numbers that would be welcome to industry. But whether vendors will ultimately benefit is unclear because it’s difficult to predict whether the annual appropriations will be signed into law. That’s because the Senate Appropriations Committee in…
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