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With Success as an Integrator, Rapiscan More Aggressive in Marketing its Capabilities

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

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Based on its success so far in managing turnkey screening operations for international customers and providing integrated checkpoint screening solutions for the U.S. military, Rapiscan Systems is more aggressively marketing its capabilities as an integrator, a company official tells HSR. This isn’t a “revolutionary change” for Rapiscan but “we are definitely being more aggressive in marketing our capabilities in what we call broadly the whole security integration space,” says Andrew Goldsmith, vice president of Global Marketing at Rapiscan. “That’s a…

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