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Senators Want Napolitano To Review Auto-Detect Capability On AIT Machines

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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker Three Republican Senators who recently returned from a trip to examine counter-terrorism efforts abroad have asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to examine new auto-detection technology deployed on whole body imaging systems at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport for use in the United States to address privacy concerns. The automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms the senators mention was developed by L-3 Communications [LLL] and are installed on the company's ProVision millimeter wave-based Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines used at…

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