TSA purchasing Bottled Liquid Scanners
Sep 23, 2013 | 8:22 am
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TSA purchasing Bottled Liquid Scanners
"Smiths Detection has won a contract award for $6.8 million to supply RespondeR Bottled Liquid Scanner (BLS) units to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for use at U.S. airport passenger screening checkpoints."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/smiths...141600165.html
our tax dollars at work
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/smiths...141600165.html
our tax dollars at work
Sep 23, 2013 | 11:01 am
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This could be a good (expensive) tool...or not. Depends how it is implemented.
If it's like the ETD and it's plagued by false positives (likely due to poor TSO technique/poor machine maintenance) that are the signal for TSOs to immediately assume the worst and trigger LEOs, backroom strip searches, etc., instead of carefully controlled re-testing (glove change/test new gloves on machine/swab/re-test pax) then it won't be a good thing at all.
I also would be very surprised if it is used for anything but testing already allowed (supposedly, depending on the whim of the TSO) LGAs - medical LGAs and infant formula/breast milk.
If it's like the ETD and it's plagued by false positives (likely due to poor TSO technique/poor machine maintenance) that are the signal for TSOs to immediately assume the worst and trigger LEOs, backroom strip searches, etc., instead of carefully controlled re-testing (glove change/test new gloves on machine/swab/re-test pax) then it won't be a good thing at all.
I also would be very surprised if it is used for anything but testing already allowed (supposedly, depending on the whim of the TSO) LGAs - medical LGAs and infant formula/breast milk.
Sep 23, 2013 | 11:24 am
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Originally Posted by ChicagoDave
The article also says, "The scan and analysis are completed within 20 seconds."
I see it now................2 minutes to dig the liquid out, a minute for the TSO to waddle over to the machine, 2 minutes to figure out how to use it, 20 sec. to run the test and a minute to waddle back. Total timer....6 min 20 sec.
Originally Posted by ChicagoDave
The article also says, "The scan and analysis are completed within 20 seconds."
I see it now................2 minutes to dig the liquid out, a minute for the TSO to waddle over to the machine, 2 minutes to figure out how to use it, 20 sec. to run the test and a minute to waddle back. Total timer....6 min 20 sec.
Sep 24, 2013 | 4:31 am
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This could be a good (expensive) tool...or not. Depends how it is implemented.
If it's like the ETD and it's plagued by false positives (likely due to poor TSO technique/poor machine maintenance) that are the signal for TSOs to immediately assume the worst and trigger LEOs, backroom strip searches, etc., instead of carefully controlled re-testing (glove change/test new gloves on machine/swab/re-test pax) then it won't be a good thing at all.
I also would be very surprised if it is used for anything but testing already allowed (supposedly, depending on the whim of the TSO) LGAs - medical LGAs and infant formula/breast milk.
If it's like the ETD and it's plagued by false positives (likely due to poor TSO technique/poor machine maintenance) that are the signal for TSOs to immediately assume the worst and trigger LEOs, backroom strip searches, etc., instead of carefully controlled re-testing (glove change/test new gloves on machine/swab/re-test pax) then it won't be a good thing at all.
I also would be very surprised if it is used for anything but testing already allowed (supposedly, depending on the whim of the TSO) LGAs - medical LGAs and infant formula/breast milk.