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House Appropriators Concerned With Limitations In CBP’s Passenger Vehicle Scanners

House Appropriators Concerned With Limitations In CBP’s Passenger Vehicle Scanners
Vehicle above Viken's in-ground Osprey-UVX under vehicle inspection system. Photo: Viken Detection

New non-intrusive inspection (NII) systems that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is beginning to deploy at land ports of entry to scan passenger vehicles as they are entering the U.S. at a primary inspection lane for the most part are not providing a full vehicle scan, the House Appropriations Committee says in a report accompanying their markup of the fiscal year 2024 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The report says only one-third of the low-energy portals (LEPs)…

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