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Homeland Security

TSA Begins ATR Upgrades to L-3’s Body Imagers at Airports

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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

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Following a successful pilot testing effort earlier this year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun installing new software that automatically detects threats on people who are screened by millimeter wave-based whole body imagers at the nation's airports. The millimeter wave Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) systems used at airport checkpoints are made by L-3 Communications [LLL]. OSI Systems [OSIS] Rapiscan Systems division makes backscatter X-Ray-based AITs that are also deployed at the nation's airports. This fall TSA expects to begin…

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

Congress

HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

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