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R&S Making Some Inroads into U.S. Aviation Security Market with Body Scanner

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

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R&S Making Some Inroads into U.S. Aviation Security Market with Body Scanner

R&S QPS quick personnel security scanner. Image: Rohde & Schwarz

Rohde & Schwarz, whose personnel security scanner was only recently qualified by the Transportation Security Administration, has had some success in selling and deploying its QPS201 Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) system in the U.S. aviation security market through airport purchases of the system and expects to continue to build on these initial deployments as airports invest in capital improvements and plan for air travel to return to pre-pandemic levels, a company official says. The company has a focus on airports…

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