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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 6:57 pm
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Originally Posted by N1120A
Aren't all the BKSX gone (for now)?
They have not been removed yet, but will all be removed by the end of the summer. However, the TSA has signed contracts with Smiths Detection (infamous for some of the old "puffer" machines that were used at some airports from 2006 to 2010) and American Science & Engineering to develop new body scanners for the TSA that are compliant with the congressional mandate requiring privacy filters. Smiths Detection plans on using MMW technology while AS&E will use BKSX.

However, it isn't totally certain that the TSA will be deploying both companies' body scanners. If AS&E faces the same issues that Rapiscan is having to add privacy filters to their BKSX scanner, then Smiths Detection will probably get the TSA's business for all airports that do not already have (or plan on getting) the L-3 MMW scanners. In fact, Smiths Detection already has privacy software for their eqo MMW scanner: http://www.smithsdetection.com/eqo.php. Therefore Smiths Detection is probably a shoe-in.

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