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Homeland Security

L-3 Chief Says Airport Testing of AIT Auto Target Detection Successful

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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) testing of automated target detection (ATD) algorithms on whole body imagers in three airports has been "successful," according to Michael Strianese, chairman, president and CEO of L-3 Communications [LLL]. "We remain on track for certification of our system in the near-future and expect ProVision orders to include our ATD software," Strianese says on L-3's first quarter earnings call last month. He adds that there is potential to retrofit the ATD software on the company's installed…

Congress

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Space

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