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Significant Deployments of Checkpoint CT Unlikely Until 2020, Industry Officials Say

Significant Deployments of Checkpoint CT Unlikely Until 2020, Industry Officials Say
Smiths Detection's HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX carry-on baggage scanner. An industry coalition wants Congress to provide $1.6 billion to the Transportation Security Administration to purchase more checkpoint CT systems. Photo: Smiths Detection

A second protest filed by L3 Technologies [LLL] in mid-May of a decision to award the first contract for new checkpoint baggage scanners to Smiths Detection means it will likely be 2020 before deployments of the computed tomography (CT)-based machines will begin, industry officials tell HSR. L3 filed a protest on April 9 of the Transportation Security Administration’s $96.8 million award to Smiths for 300 of the company’s HI-SCAN CTiX checkpoint CT systems after the agency in late March selected…

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