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TSA Roadmap For On-Person Screening Aims At Seamless, Uninterrupted Checkpoint Experience

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 5th, 2020

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TSA Roadmap For On-Person Screening Aims At Seamless, Uninterrupted Checkpoint Experience

Leidos ProVision 2 Advanced Imaging Technology scanner. Photo: Leidos

Holding to the vision of “screening at speed” for the future airport security checkpoint experience, the Transportation Security Administration last Thursday issued a new roadmap aimed at getting to the next-generation of solutions for technologies that improve scanning of people for concealed threats without them having to pause. TSA says that over the next few years it plans to take a phased approach to developing on-person screening (OPS) to simultaneously tackle four goals, which include screening passengers and aviation workers…

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

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Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

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Congress

HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

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