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Homeland Security

TSA Wants Parallel Procurements Of CT Systems And Advanced Screening Lanes At Airports

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 10th, 2018

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TSA Wants Parallel Procurements Of CT Systems And Advanced Screening Lanes At Airports

Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske.

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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