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Homeland Security

Funding Request For Checkpoint CT Would Delay Build Out Until 2042, Pekoske Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

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Funding Request For Checkpoint CT Would Delay Build Out Until 2042, Pekoske Says

Scarabee automated screening lane at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. Photo: Scarabee

It will take nearly two decades to complete deployments of next-generation checkpoint baggage scanners under the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2024 funding request for the systems, which so far have been installed at 40 percent of airport security lanes nationwide, the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said this week. TSA, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is requesting $70 million for checkpoint computed tomography (CT) systems in the FY ’24 budget, a funding rate that…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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