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Homeland Security

TSA Plans Operational Test Facility For Passenger And Baggage Screening Equipment

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Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has acquired space in the Washington, D.C., area to house an operational testing facility for checked baggage and checkpoint security systems, giving it the ability to explore how different technologies and systems could work without necessarily doing similar testing at an airport and potentially disrupting operations, according to agency officials. The integration facility would allow TSA to test various concepts such as rerouting checked bags within a baggage handling system between an…

Congress

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Congress

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