ScanTech AI Systems to Unveil its CustomsTrace AI™ to Pioneer Goods Verification in a Shifting Tariff Landscape
ScanTech AI Systems (Nasdaq: STAI) has announced the development of CustomsTrace AI™, a new platform integrating CT screening technology with AI for customs and border security. The system aims to address challenges in identifying tariff-sensitive goods and preventing unauthorized imports at national borders.
The platform will combine the company's high-resolution imaging and machine learning capabilities, developed over the past decade, with adaptive classification algorithms to enable real-time, data-driven screening of goods. ScanTech AI plans to integrate CustomsTrace AI™ into its existing fixed-gantry CT systems.
The development is being guided by the company's Board of Directors, which includes former senior leaders from Customs and regulatory agencies. Ralph Basham, former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, endorsed the technology as vital for national security and tariff assessment.
ScanTech AI Systems (Nasdaq: STAI) ha annunciato lo sviluppo di CustomsTrace AI™, una nuova piattaforma che integra la tecnologia di screening con CT e l'intelligenza artificiale per la sicurezza doganale e di frontiera. Il sistema mira a risolvere le difficoltà nell'identificare merci soggette a tariffe e a prevenire importazioni non autorizzate ai confini nazionali.
La piattaforma combinerà le capacità di imaging ad alta risoluzione e apprendimento automatico dell'azienda, sviluppate nell'ultimo decennio, con algoritmi di classificazione adattativi per consentire uno screening in tempo reale e basato sui dati delle merci. ScanTech AI prevede di integrare CustomsTrace AI™ nei suoi sistemi CT a portale fisso già esistenti.
Lo sviluppo è guidato dal Consiglio di Amministrazione dell'azienda, che include ex dirigenti senior di dogane e agenzie regolatorie. Ralph Basham, ex Commissario della U.S. Customs and Border Protection, ha definito la tecnologia fondamentale per la sicurezza nazionale e la valutazione tariffaria.
ScanTech AI Systems (Nasdaq: STAI) ha anunciado el desarrollo de CustomsTrace AI™, una nueva plataforma que integra tecnología de escaneo CT con inteligencia artificial para la seguridad aduanera y fronteriza. El sistema busca enfrentar los desafíos en la identificación de mercancías sujetas a aranceles y prevenir importaciones no autorizadas en las fronteras nacionales.
La plataforma combinará las capacidades de imagen de alta resolución y aprendizaje automático de la compañía, desarrolladas durante la última década, con algoritmos de clasificación adaptativos para permitir un escaneo en tiempo real basado en datos de las mercancías. ScanTech AI planea integrar CustomsTrace AI™ en sus sistemas CT de pórtico fijo existentes.
El desarrollo está siendo dirigido por la Junta Directiva de la compañía, que incluye ex altos cargos de agencias aduaneras y regulatorias. Ralph Basham, ex Comisionado de la U.S. Customs and Border Protection, respaldó la tecnología como vital para la seguridad nacional y la evaluación arancelaria.
ScanTech AI Systems(나스닥: STAI)는 세관 및 국경 보안을 위한 CT 스캐닝 기술과 AI를 통합한 새로운 플랫폼 CustomsTrace AI™ 개발을 발표했습니다. 이 시스템은 관세 대상 품목 식별과 국가 경계에서의 무단 수입 방지 문제를 해결하는 것을 목표로 합니다.
이 플랫폼은 지난 10년간 개발된 회사의 고해상도 영상 기술과 기계 학습 능력에 적응형 분류 알고리즘을 결합하여 실시간 데이터 기반 화물 스크리닝을 가능하게 합니다. ScanTech AI는 CustomsTrace AI™를 기존의 고정식 CT 시스템에 통합할 계획입니다.
이 개발은 세관 및 규제 기관의 전직 고위 인사들이 포함된 이사회가 주도하고 있습니다. 미국 세관국경보호청 전 국장 랄프 배샴은 이 기술이 국가 안보와 관세 평가에 필수적이라고 평가했습니다.
ScanTech AI Systems (Nasdaq : STAI) a annoncé le développement de CustomsTrace AI™, une nouvelle plateforme intégrant la technologie de dépistage par CT avec l'intelligence artificielle pour la sécurité douanière et aux frontières. Ce système vise à relever les défis liés à l'identification des marchandises soumises à des tarifs et à la prévention des importations non autorisées aux frontières nationales.
La plateforme combinera les capacités d'imagerie haute résolution et d'apprentissage automatique de l'entreprise, développées au cours de la dernière décennie, avec des algorithmes de classification adaptatifs pour permettre un contrôle en temps réel et basé sur les données des marchandises. ScanTech AI prévoit d'intégrer CustomsTrace AI™ à ses systèmes CT à portique fixe existants.
Le développement est supervisé par le conseil d'administration de l'entreprise, qui comprend d'anciens hauts responsables des douanes et des agences réglementaires. Ralph Basham, ancien commissaire de la U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a salué cette technologie comme essentielle pour la sécurité nationale et l'évaluation tarifaire.
ScanTech AI Systems (Nasdaq: STAI) hat die Entwicklung von CustomsTrace AI™ angekündigt, einer neuen Plattform, die CT-Scanning-Technologie mit KI für Zoll- und Grenzsicherheit integriert. Das System soll Herausforderungen bei der Identifizierung zollrelevanter Waren und der Verhinderung unbefugter Importe an nationalen Grenzen bewältigen.
Die Plattform wird die hochauflösenden Bildgebungs- und maschinellen Lernfähigkeiten des Unternehmens, die in den letzten zehn Jahren entwickelt wurden, mit adaptiven Klassifikationsalgorithmen kombinieren, um eine datenbasierte Echtzeit-Screening von Waren zu ermöglichen. ScanTech AI plant, CustomsTrace AI™ in seine bestehenden festinstallierten CT-Systeme zu integrieren.
Die Entwicklung wird vom Vorstand des Unternehmens geleitet, dem ehemalige Führungskräfte von Zoll- und Regulierungsbehörden angehören. Ralph Basham, ehemaliger Kommissar des U.S. Customs and Border Protection, bezeichnete die Technologie als entscheidend für die nationale Sicherheit und die Zollbewertung.
- Among few companies with comprehensive customs screening solutions
- Leverages existing decade-long technology development
- Strategic board composition including former senior customs officials
- Targets growing market with competition
- Product still in initial development phase
- No current revenue generation from the new platform
- Success dependent on future customer adoption
A Forward-Looking Platform Designed to Empower Customs with AI-Driven Goods Identification and Trade Compliance
Atlanta, GA, April 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ScanTech AI Systems Inc. (the “Company” or “ScanTech AI”) (Nasdaq: STAI), a global innovator in non-intrusive, fixed-gantry CT (Computed Tomography) screening technologies, today announced the initial development of its CustomsTrace AI™ platform, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at addressing what is anticipated to be one of the most pressing challenges in today’s global trade environment, accurate identification and verification of tariff-sensitive goods at national borders including the prevention of unauthorized or illicit importation of restricted items.
As tariff regulations and international trade policies continue to shift, governments and industries alike are expected to seek technology partners capable of enabling intelligent enforcement without disrupting supply chain fluidity. In response to the potential needs, ScanTech AI is harnessing its core competencies in high-resolution imaging and machine learning in an effort to pioneer a solution where only a few definitive validation platforms currently exist. These core technologies have been developed by ScanTech AI over the past decade. Their application in a new initiative to rapidly identify tariff-sensitive goods and unauthorized imports, without disrupting the flow of legitimate trade, is a capability that only a select few companies currently possess, including ScanTech AI.
“The CustomsTrace AI™ interface represents the potential to redefine how nations manage border security and enforce trade policy,” said Dr. Chris Green, Chief Technology Officer at ScanTech AI. “By fusing our advanced CT imaging with adaptive classification algorithms, we are building the foundation for what we aim to be an AI-powered ecosystem that enables operators to act on real-time, data-driven insights, improving both the speed and accuracy of goods screening at scale.”
The Company will actively engage with its Board of Directors, comprised of former senior leaders from Customs and other regulatory agencies, along with early customer stakeholders, to help shape the development roadmap and ensure the platform aligns with mission-critical enforcement needs. The Company considers it a distinct advantage to have such a highly experienced and strategically connected group guiding its efforts.
“As the former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, I can attest that this technology is a vital tool in safeguarding our nation from a wide range of threats and vulnerabilities, whether related to terrorism or our capacity to identify and assess tariffs, which are critical to our economic security,” said Ralph Basham, former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Director of the U.S. Secret Service.
ScanTech AI plans to integrate the CustomsTrace AI™ platform directly into its industry-proven fixed-gantry CT systems, offering freight, logistics, and customs operations an innovative tool to support regulatory compliance, trade transparency, and national security in the face of a complex and evolving tariff landscape.
“With fewer than a handful of comprehensive solutions currently available in the market, we believe that our CustomsTrace AI™ platform will uniquely position ScanTech AI to lead a category with exceptional growth potential,” said D. Williams Sr., Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ScanTech AI. “We are committed to redefining the future of intelligent border management—where advanced innovation not only safeguards national borders but also strengthens the integrity of global trade by replacing outdated, trust-based declaration systems with real-time, technology-driven verification.”
Regardless of how the global tariff landscape evolves, ScanTech AI believes that the demand for a solution like CustomsTrace AI™ will remain both timely and essential. For years, industry has lacked a unified, technology-driven approach to real-time goods verification, making it difficult to ensure consistent accuracy, streamline inspections, and support evolving compliance requirements. CustomsTrace AI™ aims to address this longstanding need by providing a scalable platform that enhances visibility, strengthens trade integrity, and supports smarter, more adaptive customs operations.
This announcement reinforces ScanTech AI’s strategic vision: to anticipate global enforcement needs, invest in AI-driven innovation, and deliver advanced solutions that drive stockholder value while addressing some of the most critical issues facing the trade and security sectors today.
About ScanTech AI Systems
ScanTech AI Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: STAI) has developed one of the world’s most advanced non-intrusive ‘fixed-gantry’ CT screening technologies. Utilizing proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, ScanTech AI’s state-of-the-art scanners accurately and quickly detect hazardous materials and contraband. Engineered to automatically locate, discriminate, and identify threat materials and items of interest, ScanTech AI’s solutions are designed for use in airports, seaports, borders, embassies, corporate headquarters, government and commercial buildings, factories, processing plants, and other facilities where security is a priority.
For more information, visit www.scantechais.com and https://investor.scantechais.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), including statements regarding ScanTech AI’s management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, plans, prospects or strategies regarding the future, including development of the CustomsTrace AI™ platform and any subsequent future effects or events if that platform is successfully developed, possible business combinations, revenue growth and financial performance, product expansion and services. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Additionally, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “may,” “will,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing,” “target,” “seek” or the negative or plural of these words, or other similar expressions that are predictions or indicate future events or prospects, may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on the current expectations and beliefs made by the management of ScanTech AI, in light of their respective experience and their perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments and their potential effect on ScanTech AI, as well as other factors they believe are appropriate under the circumstances. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting ScanTech AI will be those that it has anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of the parties) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including product and service acceptance, regulatory oversights, research and development success, and that ScanTech AI will have sufficient capital to operate as anticipated. Should one or more of these risks of uncertainties materialize, or should any of the assumptions of ScanTech AI prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ are discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” and in other sections of the filings of ScanTech AI (and its predecessor, Mars) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and in the current and periodic reports filed or furnished by ScanTech AI (and its predecessor, Mars) from time to time with the SEC. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof, based on the information available to ScanTech AI as of the date hereof, and ScanTech AI assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may otherwise be required under applicable securities laws.
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