Within the next year the Transportation Security Administration will host a new competition for advanced checkpoint baggage scanners that could result in one or more awardees, agency Chief David Pekoske said on March 29, a day after TSA awarded a five-year $96.8 million contract to Smiths Detection to provide the first 300 computed tomography (CT)-based systems to some U.S. airports. The award to Smiths Detection is just the first of a multiphase effort to bring more than 2,000 of the…
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