
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske says his agency plans to field 40 new advanced checkpoint screening systems for aviation security this year for further operational testing in advanced of a larger rollout in fiscal year 2019.TSA will field “almost” 40 computed tomography (CT)-based systems to screen carry-on bags, 28 of which will go to airports in the U.S. and the rest to three different government test facilities, Pekoske told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation. “We are…