L-3 Communications Security & Detection Systems - X-Ray Security Screening Systems

For more than 30 years, L-3 Security & Detection Systems has been a partner in shaping aviation security by developing cutting-edge solutions to increasingly complex operational requirements and sophisticated threats. Combining innovative threat detection technologies with intelligent, flexible system designs and robust networking capabilities, L-3 systems deliver exceptional automated processing, threat recognition and throughput rates.

Throughout the world, L-3's technologies protect the traveling public, safeguard the flow of goods and defend critical infrastructure against terrorism and other threats, while keeping travelers and commerce moving.

Checkpoint, baggage and cargo screening and border security systems

L-3 systems and products span the spectrum of aviation security. They help the world's busiest passenger terminals screen people, carry-on items, bags and break-bulk cargo for explosives, firearms, drugs and other contraband.

As a provider of advanced systems for checkpoint screening, inspecting checked baggage and cargo and border security, L-3 incorporates a variety of powerful and proven technologies in its screening products: 3-D computed tomography; automated, conventional and high-energy X-ray; active millimeter wave imaging; metal detection; and energetic materials detection for trace explosives.

Working together with regulatory agencies and airport operators worldwide to develop the most effective and efficient inspection systems available, L-3 remains at the forefront of technological advancements that improve detection rates and operational efficiencies.

Checkpoint screening security systems

Every day millions of people pass through airport security checkpoints, hoping to do so as quickly and conveniently as possible. L-3's exceptional screening technologies help airports clear the vast majority of passengers, who pose no threat, while helping security personnel spot suspicious items and real threats quickly and easily, whether in carry-on bags and parcels or concealed on the body.

From best-in-class X-ray imaging and explosives trace detection to a ground-breaking integrated checkpoint system, L-3's innovative imaging and material analysis technologies reveal the most skillfully masked substances and keep checkpoint lines moving.

Checked baggage inspection systems

Freestanding, in-line and multilevel automated explosives detection systems (EDS) for screening hold baggage and parcels feature L-3's proprietary CT and advanced technology (AT) and meet the most demanding explosives detection performance, speed and reliability standards in the industry. From major international hubs to regional passenger terminals, airports around the globe rely on L-3 EDS to enhance security and meet increasingly demanding throughput, infrastructure and cost requirements.

Cargo screening security systems

The constant flow of goods and materials through border crossings and ports poses a world of challenges. Dense freight loads can hide virtually anything: weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, stolen goods, drugs, stowaways, etc. The possibilities are endless.

L-3 cargo X-ray systems match the complex demands of customs, border and port security, blending landmark image capture and processing technology with versatile platforms that span the range of physical requirements. From explosives to drugs, stowaways or other potential hazards, L-3's screening technologies offer an accurate, sensitive and non-invasive approach to finding concealed contraband and threatening substances, even in solidly packed freight.

About L-3 Communications

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs over 64,000 people worldwide and is a prime contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems and government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, subsystems and systems. The company reported 2008 sales of $14.9 billion.