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TSA Expects To Put High-Speed EDS In Airport Environment For Testing In 2017, Official Says

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TSA Expects To Put High-Speed EDS In Airport Environment For Testing In 2017, Official Says
L3 Technologies’ medium-speed eXaminer 3DX explosive detection system used by airports worldwide to screen checked bags for explosives. TechFlow will support EDS systems at U.S. airports made by L3, Smiths Detection and Leidos. Photo: L3

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) currently has two high-speed explosive detection systems (EDS) in its testing cycle and expects to begin testing one of the systems in an airport environment in 2017 and the other in 2018, says the head of the agency’s Checked Baggage Technology Division.The two high-speed systems are from Smiths Detection and Safran Group’s Morpho Detection and one “will likely get into the operational environment for operational testing this fiscal year,” Mario Wilson tells attendees at the…

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