TSA to Remove Body Imaging Machines

The hated body-imaging machines will be gone from airports soon according to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. The imaging machines will be removed,  "Due to its inability to deploy non-imaging Automated Target Recognition software by the congressionally mandated June 2013 deadline, TSA has terminated its contract with Rapiscan," the division of OSI Systems that provides the technology, according to a TSA statement.

TSA assistant administrator for acquisitions Karen Shelton Waters told Bloomberg News that the agency in 2012 removed 76 Rapiscan machines and will remove the remaining 174. She further indicated that TSA will use 60 body scanners manufactured by L-3 Communications Holdings.