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TSA to Remove Rapiscan Body Scanners From Airport

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2013 at 11:33:55 AM EST
Tags: Rapiscan, Backscatters, AIT, TSA (all tags)
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TSA has ended its $5 million contract with OSI, which makes the Rapiscan Backscatter, one of two "people screening" machines using advanced imaging technology at airports.

OSI could not meet a deadline to come up with software that rendered the images generic. Instead, TSA will use machines by L3 Communications which produce generic passenger images. Here's the L3 page for the Provision II. L3 Communications announced a $245 million contract with TSA in November. Also in November, at a congressional hearing, allegations arose, which OSI denied, that it had falsified test results.[More...]

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