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SureScan Sees Potential for First EDS Orders in 2015

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

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SureScan Corp., the first company to receive U.S. certification for a multi-energy stationary gantry explosive detection system (EDS), believes it could get the first orders for the x1000 in 2015, LeeAnn Levesque, the New York-based company’s CEO tells HSR. In April the Transportation Security Administration certified SureScan’s x1000 EDS system after it met requirements for detection and false alarm rates in the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Laboratory. The company’s x1000 previously successfully completed the first phase of operational…

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