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L-3 Put on TSA Body Scanner Contract

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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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In the immediate wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a passenger plane nearing its destination in the U.S., the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week put L-3 Communications [LLL] on a $164.7 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to supply the agency with whole body imagers. The contract action moves L-3 a step closer to getting its first production award to supply ProVision millimeter wave-based systems to TSA, which calls the body scanners Advanced Imaging Technology…

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