Company's baggage screeners qualify for Beijinggames: machines from OSI Systems will assist...

OSI Systems Inc., a Hawthorne-based manufacturer of specialized electronics products, has won two modest contracts, including one designed to aid security efforts of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.

The company's security division, Rapiscan Systems, inked a $2 million deal last week

The company makes a variety of luggage-and passenger-screening equipment in use at airport security checkpoints and other facilities around the world. It has won several contracts recently from the Transportation Security Administration for its X-ray machines and so-called "backscatter" imaging systems used to inspect boarding passengers.

This latest deal, though relatively small for the $547 million company, makes Rapiscan the primary Western supplier of X-ray scanning machines to the Olympic Games, the company said.

Ajay Mehra, president of Rapiscan, said the company has a history of supplying security equipment to international sporting events, but this contract represents the strides the company is making in the Chinese market.

In addition to this deal, OSI also won a $5.8 million contract with New York-based electronics and weapons maker EDO Corp. to supply subassemblies for an electronic jammer system. The devices will be used by the Department of Defense on battlefield vehicles.

OSI was recently honored by EDO as a top manufacturer in 2007.