The Senate Appropriations Committee last week approved a spending bill for Homeland Security that adds $72.3 million to the budget request for aviation checkpoint security, an amount that will allow the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to accelerate its purchases of related screening equipment. The total funding from the panel for checkpoint support is $200 million, which includes money for the field testing and deployment of passenger screening, carry-on baggage screening, checkpoint reconfiguration and electronic surveillance of checkpoints, according to a…
Senate Panel Wants Accelerated Purchase of Checkpoint Screening Technologies
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