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TSA Plans to Accelerate ETD Testing for Air Cargo Mandate

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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the coming months expects to issue a solicitation to begin testing explosive trace detection (ETD) systems to qualify them for use in meeting the air cargo screening mandate, agency officials say. The agency will first test ETD technologies currently being used in the aviation environment, which is an acceleration of the testing process, and then examine redesigned and new systems, TSA tells TR2. Current ETD systems in use by TSA at airports are made…

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