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Airport Passenger Screening: Millimeter Wave Machines

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This study with examine DHS's procedure and equipment to estimate radiation exposures used in screening air travelers, and provide a report with findings and recommendations on whether exposures comply with applicable health and safety standards for public and occupational exposures, and whether system design, operating procedures, and maintenance procedures are appropriate to prevent over exposures.

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Description

An ad hoc committee will review previous studies as well as current processes used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and equipment manufacturers to estimate radiation exposures resulting from millimeter wave advanced imaging technology (AIT) system use in screening air travelers, and provide a report with findings and recommendations on:

(1) whether exposures comply with applicable health and safety standards for public and occupational exposures to non-ionizing millimeter wave radiation, and

(2) whether system design (e.g., safety interlocks), operating procedures, and maintenance procedures are appropriate to prevent over exposures of travelers and operators to non-ionizing radiation.

This study will not address legal, cultural or privacy implications of this technology.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure

Nominees to the committee were sought with a range of expertise and perspectives on the issues to be addressed in this study including but not limited to: aviation security, systems engineering, manufacturing testing and evaluation, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, health physics, and radiation physics/biology.

Committee Membership Roster Comments

Mittleman bio updated 1/27/2015
Kheifet bio updated 1/28/2015
Dauer bio updated 1/28/2015
Gaver bio removed, Resignation 4/16/2015
Dicello bio added 4/23/2015
McGinnis bio added 4/23/2015
Mittleman affiliation from Rice U. to Brown U. 8/14/15
Dicello bio removed, Resignation 12/2/2016

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Other, Federal

Staff

Erik Svedberg

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