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TSA Expects to Put High-Speed EDS in Airport Environment for Testing in 2017, Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

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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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