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Homeland Security

Final Spending Bill Lumps Together CT, CAT Funding for TSA

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 5th, 2021

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President Donald Trump in late December signed an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2021 that includes $100 million for the Transportation Security Administration to divvy up between purchases of next-generation checkpoint baggage scanners and the continued rollout of advanced automated credential authentication devices. An explanatory statement accompanying the FY ’21 spending bill doesn’t break out how much funding is allocated for the checkpoint computed tomography (CT) baggage scanners and how much is for the Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) units.…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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