Good news: TSA goes big on CT scanners

Paul Heymont 4/5/197:00 AM

If you're tired of pulling out your laptop and bag of liquids, here's the good news: after a year of testing them at several airports, TSA has ordered 300 CT scanning stations that can look inside your bag in 3D, eliminating the need to unpack.

The systems, already in use in 12 airports, give the TSA officers the ability to rotate the scanned images and 'see' things not visible in conventional electromagnetic scans. The testing has proved successful enough for TSA to invest nearly $100 million in the new scanners.

Deliveries are starting soon, and the first will be in service this summer, with all in use by late 2020. So far, no announcement of which airports will get them first.

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