Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via Forbes news that “American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents…While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq…law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.”