First of all, I wasn't previously aware that the funding for the majority of the scanners that are currently deployed came from the 2009 stimulus. I assumed it was some normal allocation of TSA's budget, but I'm even further disgusted to know that money that was intended to get America moving was spent to smack us down.
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5. How do they decide which airports get which machines? One clearly has a smaller footprint than the other. Perhaps one has a higher floor-loading than the other. Perhaps one draws more power than the other? Perhaps a particular airport director may not want radiation-generating equipment at his airport (if he/she even got a vote).
The only thing I've found so far that's relevant to this is that the Recovery Act specified that the TSA "shall prioritize the award of these funds to accelerate the installations at locations with completed design plans."