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Homeland Security

Reveal gets $47M, Rapiscan $3M in First TSA Recovery Act Awards

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded Reveal Imaging Technologies a $47 million contract for Explosives Detection Systems (EDS) and OSI Systems' [OSIS] Rapiscan division a $3 million contract for checkpoint X-Ray systems, marking the agencies first use of the $1 billion it has to spend under the American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Reveal's award is for 123 reduced size EDS under an existing contract it has with TSA. The reduced sized EDS are typically used at small and…

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