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TSA Official Says Airport Checkpoint CT Systems Will Begin Deploying This Fall

TSA Official Says Airport Checkpoint CT Systems Will Begin Deploying This Fall
Patricia Cogswell, acting deputy TSA Administrator. Photo: TSA

Deployments of new scanners with enhanced capabilities for peering inside travelers’ bags at airport security checkpoints will begin this fall, a senior Transportation Security Administration official said on Tuesday. Deployments of the computed tomography (CT)-based checkpoint scanners originally were planned for this summer but TSA’s $96.8 million award in late March to Smiths Detection for the first 300 units was protested by L3Harris Technologies [LHX]. The Government Accountability Office in July denied two protests by L3Harris, freeing TSA to complete…

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