
The Transportation Security Administration in December said it has made a number of new additions to its qualified vendor list for next-generation checkpoint baggage scanners, increasing competition ahead of the next contracting round. Under the checkpoint property screening systems (CPSS) program, TSA now has nine qualified systems across its three configurations, base, mid-size and full-size. Last year and again early this year, TSA awarded Analogic the first contracts under the CPSS program. At the time, the company was the only…