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After Lull, L-3 Beginning to Score in Cargo Security Market

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

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L-3 Communications [LLL] has nabbed several contract wins in the market for cargo and container scanning systems dating back to last year after watching its business for high-energy non-intrusive inspection (NII) systems dry up the past few years, a company official says. Last year the company won a yet-to-be-announced contract with Dutch customs to supply its CX Portal X-Ray scanning systems for use at the Port of Rotterdam, Bill Frain, senior vice president with L-3’s Security & Detection Systems division,…

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