Thu, Sep 04, 2003
Magnanimous TSA to Fund 75% of DEN's Automated Inline
Bag-Screening System
The Transportation
Safety Administration has given Denver International Airport a
Letter of Intent for $71.25 million to help pay for the airport's
state-of-the-art automated inline baggage- screening system. The
country's taxpayers' money will cover just 75 percent of the $95
million cost of installing the bag system infrastructure demanded
by the TSA, in the remaining five modules and international area of
Jeppesen Terminal at DEN.
"We are extremely gratified that the TSA has agreed to help us
provide the most up-to-date bag-screening technology for our
customers," Vicki Braunagel, co-manager of aviation at DEN, said
Tuesday. "Our congressional delegation has been very helpful in
pushing this issue in Washington, and we thank them for their
support." She did not mention the taxpayers whose work made this
redistribution of their wealth possible.
Co-manager Turner West
said DEN will issue Notice to Proceed on the project immediately.
Construction of the system is expected to take 16 months.
The so-called 'federal money' is earmarked for design,
engineering, fabrication, installation, modification and
construction of DEN's inline baggage system. The system will enable
the TSA to install and operate explosive-detection equipment to
screen luggage after it has been checked. The $95 million cost does
not include the explosive-detection machines themselves, which can
cost upwards of $1 million each. DEN will need approximately 50 of
the machines for its fully automated inline system, and the TSA is
expected to provide them.
Denver International Airport already spent about $13 million of
its own money to build an automated, inline bag-screening system in
the sixth module of the Terminal. That system, which is used by
airlines whose ticket counters are in the southeast module, also is
used as a beta-testing site for bag-screening equipment.
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