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TSA Completes Deployment Of Initial Checkpoint CT Systems

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

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TSA Completes Deployment Of Initial Checkpoint CT Systems

Smiths Detection's HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX checkpoint scanner for carry-on bags. Photo: Smiths Detection

The Transportation Security Administration has deployed 300 next-generation baggage scanners at 142 U.S. airport checkpoints and plans to acquire another 242 of the systems in the current fiscal year, which would get the agency to about 25 percent of its deployment goal for the computed tomography (CT) scanners, the acting head of TSA said on Wednesday. The CT technology allows operators to virtually rotate an image of a passenger’s carry-on bag and its contents to better check for potential threats.…

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