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GAO Denies L3Harris Protests Of Advanced Checkpoint Scanner Contract To Smiths

GAO Denies L3Harris Protests Of Advanced Checkpoint Scanner Contract To Smiths
Smiths Detection's HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX carry-on baggage scanner. An industry coalition wants Congress to provide $1.6 billion to the Transportation Security Administration to purchase more checkpoint CT systems. Photo: Smiths Detection

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) earlier this month denied two protests by L3Harris Technologies [LHX] of a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) contract award to Smiths Detection for the first tranche of new scanning systems to screen carry-on bags at airport checkpoints. The rejection of the protests means that Smiths Detection, which is part of Britain’s Smiths Group, can get to work on delivering the first of the computed tomography (CT)-based checkpoint scanners to TSA for acceptance testing within the next…

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