L-3 Communications announced this month that the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has purchased 300 ProVision ATD personnel screening systems for use at aviation checkpoints.
The contract value of this order is $44.8 million and production of these units is underway.
TSA is also in the process of upgrading 250 existing ProVision units deployed at 40 US airports with the new image-free ATD software under a separate contract with L-3.
The millimeter wave-based ProVision ATD automatically detects potential threats and highlights their location on a generic mannequin that appears on a monitor attached to the ProVision ATD.
“Our research teams developed sophisticated automatic detection algorithms that power the industry’s first image-free people-screening solution,” said Thomas M. Ripp, president of L-3 Security & Detection Systems.