ending its contract with backscatter scanner maker Rapiscan because the company was unable to come up with privacy-protective technology to shield travelers' private-ish parts from view.

Rapiscan, a unit of OSI Systems Inc., manufactured about 200 full-body scanners used by the TSA to screen passengers for hidden weapons at airports across the country. The machines generated a ...

Travelers are allowed to refuse a full-body scan, regardless of the machine, in favor of a pat-down by TSA officers. The TSA had given manufacturer Rapiscan Systems until June to update its ...

I hope Rapiscan is paying him extra for this. Rapiscan’s response to this controversy is twofold. First, it says, it just makes the scanners. It does not tell its clients how to use them ...

In August, 2010 the TSA asked the makers of the body scanners to make the images less revealing. L-3 accomplished the goal in 2011, but Rapiscan recently said it would not be ready with its fix ...

The Transportation Security Administration has ended a contract with the Hawthorne-based manufacturer of a controversial full-body scanner used to screen passengers. Rapiscan, a unit of OSI ...

An influential member of Congress has suggested that Rapiscan, the company behind some of the full-body scanners used at American airports, faked tests of its machines' ability to protect ...

On its website the GRA says: “It should be noted that because the equipment is highly sophisticated and complex, the GRA is forced to depend on the supplier of the container scanner RAPISCAN ...

While the TSA and scanner-maker Rapiscan Systems say the reports offer additional proof of safety, some critics remain unconvinced. Regardless, the TSA is in the final phases of removing the last ...

Sponsor Message Last year, 76 Rapiscan scanners were removed from the busiest U.S. airports. As Pro Publica reported, the TSA's main concern was that the scanners slowed down security checkpoints.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- Some locally manufactured products made by Rapiscan Systems contribute to security at ... "Others were concerned about seeing naked bodies from the scan, but going ...

In a neutron scanner, the neutron pulses "interrogate" the container. A detector records the resulting ... material specificity that X-rays cannot provide," says Dan Strellis of Rapiscan Laboratories ...