
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week announced a number of new additions to its qualified vendors 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 one whose…