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Homeland Security

L3 Opens Interactive Center To Showcase, Test Passenger Screening Systems And Concepts

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 30th, 2019

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L3 Opens Interactive Center To Showcase, Test Passenger Screening Systems And Concepts

Advanced checkpoint security operation at L3's new Experience Center. Photo: L3 Technologies

L3 Technologies [LLL] this week opened a new center in the Washington, D.C., area filled with its aviation security checkpoint technologies to demonstrate, showcase and test current and future capabilities and operational concepts for its domestic and international customers. The intent of the Passenger Screening Experience Center is to “paint the vision for the future of aviation security,” Bill McGann, chief technology officer for L3’s Massachusetts-based Security and Detection Systems business, told Defense Daily in a May 30 telephone interview.…

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