
Senate Democrats last week unveiled their proposed budget for the Department of Homeland Security in fiscal year 2022, including the requested $104.9 million for the Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoint computed tomography (CT) program, an amount well below what the agency actually desires to accelerate deployments of the advanced scanning systems. The House has already approved its version of the FY ’22 appropriations bill for DHS and also fully funded the $104.9 million request for checkpoint CT. The bill introduced by…