L-3 Communications Provides Millimeter Wave Portal to El Paso County, Colorado Courthouse
WOBURN, MASS, April 11, 2007 – L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems announced today that it has completed the installation of its active millimeter wave (MMW) body screening portal in the El Paso County Terry R. Harris Judicial Complex, which is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The deployment of the ProVision MMW portal to the Judicial Complex is a milestone for L-3, marking the first sale of its state-of-the-art security technology to a courthouse within the United States. Furthermore, L-3 Communications’ conventional checkpoint X-ray systems, provided to the Judicial Complex in early 2006, will complement the walk-through portal for carry-through items to ensure tight security.
According to Rick Leffler, Director of El Paso County’s Security and Parking Department, “Millimeter wave technology will provide the courthouse with the means to provide safe, non-X-ray-based screening technology that not only strengthens our security effort, but is fully capable of protecting privacy concerns.”
L-3 ProVision, manufactured by L-3 SafeView, Inc., a division of the newly established L-3 Homeland Security Group, pinpoints objects made of any material, including liquids, rubber, wire, plastic and metal, to quickly and easily locate weapons, contraband and other threats concealed on the body. The portals detect concealed and hidden objects such as metallic and non-metallic weapons and virtually all known explosives, drugs and other contraband in seconds. L-3’s conventional checkpoint X-ray technology provides operators with the best image resolution in its class. Using these high-resolution images, operators are able to rapidly screen objects without compromising security.
“L-3 Communications is honored to supply El Paso County with technology that will help ensure public safety as well as providing a means to promote fast, safe, and efficient security screening,” said Thomas Grudkowski, Senior Vice President and General Manager of L-3 SafeView. “We would like to congratulate El Paso County on being L-3’s first U.S. courthouse customer to pioneer the use of this technology that has already been widely accepted internationally for use in airports, border crossings, military installations and other checkpoint applications,” added Mr. Grudkowski.
L-3 ProVision portals are presently used for enhanced security at Israel’s new advanced border crossing, Amsterdam Schiphol Aiport, Madrid Barajas International Airport, control checkpoints in Iraq’s International Zone (Green Zone), facilities in Afghanistan as part of the NATO contingent, and a data center in Tokyo. These systems have also been evaluated at Mexico City International Airport, ferry landings in Singapore, railway and transit stations in London and New York, and at government and commercial buildings in The Netherlands – including the Rotterdam Courthouse. Additionally, the system is currently installed and under evaluation at the District of Colombia’s Federal Courthouse.
