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TSA To Test Additional Personal Imaging Systems At Airports
By Calvin Biesecker
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday said it has awarded small lease contracts to three companies to pilot test their passenger imaging systems for secondary screening at security checkpoints at three airports in the coming months.
A total of $2.3 million in lease agreements have been signed with American Science and Engineering [ASEI], L-3 Communications [LLL] and OSI Systems [OSIS] Rapiscan division requiring each company to deliver five of their systems to TSA for testing in airports for up to six months. The contracts include options to purchase additional units.
AS&E and Rapiscan are providing their respective X-Ray backscatter imaging systems while L-3 is providing its active millimeter wave imaging system.
The select airports are John F. Kennedy in New York, Los Angeles International and Phoenix Sky Harbor in Arizona.
TSA has been pilot testing AS&E's SmartCheck X-Ray backscatter imaging system at Sky Harbor since February (Defense Daily, Feb. 27).
