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Liberty Defense Plans to Bring New AIT, Shoe Scanning Technology to Market Soon

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

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Liberty Defense Plans to Bring New AIT, Shoe Scanning Technology to Market Soon

Bill Frain, CEO of Liberty Defense. Photo: Liberty Defense

With exclusive technology licenses in hand, Liberty Defense within the next 18 months or so plans to bring new capabilities to body scanners deployed at airports worldwide that would improve threat detection and also reduce false alarms, and the relatively new company also plans to introduce technology that can scan a person’s shoes for threats as well. And that’s not all. Liberty Defense, a portfolio company of the Canadian investment firm Canaccord Genuity, is also nearing commercial introduction of a…

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