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Rapiscan Acquires CounterBomber from Leidos

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

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Rapiscan Systems this year added new detection capabilities to its broadening scanning systems portfolio having acquired the assets and related personnel-support of the CounterBomber standoff bomb detection system from Leidos [LDOS]. Rapiscan, the security division of OSI Systems [OSIS], acquired CounterBomber in May, J.J. Bare, division manager for CounterBomber, tells HSR at the recent Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, DC. The company did not issue a press release about the acquisition, which was relatively small. About…

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