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TSA Wants Parallel Procurements of CT and Advanced Screening Lanes at Checkpoints

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, May 14th, 2018

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As the Transportation Security Administration prepares to further test and hopefully deploy next-generation technology at airport security checkpoints, the agency wants to align the procurements of new carry-on baggage scanners and the related automated baggage handling systems that feed parcels into scanners and then extracts them, according to the agency’s chief.The computed-tomography (CT)-based scanners and the Automated Screening Lanes (ASLs) combined are a system and TSA wants to “marry up” the procurements of the two technologies, David Pekoske, the TSA…

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