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National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Probably No Big, Fat Contracts for Next-Generation of Border Technology Customs and Border Protection is gearing up to begin its third attempt to deploy technology on the Southwest border.
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson	Despite Virtual Border Fence's Demise, DHS Spending Big on New Sensor Systems DHS has not soured on technology to monitor the borders, though. Plans call for more than $800 million to be spent in the near term on sensor systems and unmanned aircraft.
National Defense June 2010 Stew Magnuson	Technology Continues to Flow to Southwest Border While the Department of Homeland Security conducts a program review of its troubled border fence program, Customs and Border Protection has not stopped deploying new sensors in the Southwest.
National Defense June 2014 Stew Magnuson	Border Technology Vendors Face Stringent Acquisition Regime After years of preparation, CBP's acquisition department awarded in March a contract to Elbit Systems of America to build a third generation of fixed towers designed to monitor the border.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Sociologist's Book Documents DHS' Virtual Border Wall Failures Robert Lee Maril has written, "The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border," an investigation of Customs and Border Protection's controversial Secure Border Initiative program, and its efforts to construct a so-called "virtual" wall in Arizona.
National Defense August 2013 Stew Magnuson	New Border Technology Programs Seek to Avoid Mistakes of the Past Before Congress took up legislation this year, Customs and Border Protection had already embarked on another effort to employ fixed-site sensors to help Border Patrol agents catch smugglers and illegal immigrants.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	CBP Initiates Second Phase of New Surveillance System Customs and Border Protection is making a second attempt at deploying a high-tech camera system south of Tucson, Ariz. that is designed to help Border Patrol agents interdict illegal migrants and drug smugglers.
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson	Cost of New Border Fencing Could Reach $47 Billion A series of cameras and sensors linked to Border Patrol vehicles and a command and control center south of Tucson, Ariz., was meant to serve as a test bed for a so-called virtual fence.
National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson	Customs and Border Protection Revamps Acquisition Strategy The man charged with putting Customs and Border Protection's house in order when it comes to its technology acquisition programs said simply transferring Defense Department practices over to the Department of Homeland Security doesn't always work.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failures Reported in Key Component of U.S.-Mexico Border Fence The Project 28 virtual border fence in Arizona cannot currently deliver live streaming video to Border Patrol agents
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Chief Wary of Technology Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher said he casts a wary eye on one-size-fits-all technical solutions that are designed to help agents keep tabs on the lands that separate the United States from Canada and Mexico.
National Defense May 2011 Stew Magnuson	As DHS Embarks on Virtual Fence Part III, Global Border Technology Business Grows The year-long hold on Customs and Border Protection's controversial Secure Border Initiative will do little to dampen the market for technologies that can monitor international lines of demarcation, said an analyst who predicts growing global sales in the sector.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failures Reported in Key Component of U.S.-Mexico Electronic Fence The revelation that a highly touted component of the system does not work as promised came only days after the Obama administration announced that it is moving forward to expand the program to other areas along the southern border.
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel	With SBInet In Limbo, Border Technology Is Anyone's Game The Department of Homeland Security's program to deploy a network of cutting-edge cameras, sensors and communication technologies along the southwest border has hit its share of snags and more recently a wall.
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson	Contentious Debate Over Border Fences Won't End Soon Dormant as a national issue until late 2005, securing the southern border suddenly became an intensely debated subject and a political hot potato.
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons	Predators Allow Border Agencies to Reallocate Resources Monitoring and policing 7,000 miles of border shared by the United States and its northern and southern neighbors has always been a tall order for Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol.
National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson	South Texas in Line for Border Patrol Technology The southwest border in Texas will start to receive some of the new sensor technologies that have heretofore been deployed solely in Arizona.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Northern Border Camera System to Avoid Past Pitfalls The Border Patrol will be begin work this year to install a series of cameras north of Detroit with one motto in mind: keep it simple.
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol to Stand Pat When it Comes to New Technologies The dream that a virtual fence on the U.S. southern border would spot every illegal migrant and drug smuggler appears to be officially dead.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Department of Homeland Security uses Northrop Grumman UAV The Hunter UAV from Northrop Grumman, in helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security protect the U.S.-Mexican border, will use optoelectronic infrared sensors to scan the Arizona border area 90 miles southeast of Tucson.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Robert N. Charette	Napolitano Cancels the US $1 Billion SBInet Virtual Fence Project SBInet II said to cost US $750 million, assembled from proven off-the-shelf technology
National Defense July 2006 Harold Kennedy	Spending Climbs Into Billions, But Skepticism Grows Fueled by worries about terrorism, illegal immigration and drug smuggling, U.S. spending for border security is skyrocketing, but critics complain that much of the money is being wasted.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	Department of Homeland Security Plans to Fly More Predators Such a surveillance system could patrol large public events, such as the Super Bowl or the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver.
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson	New Radars Placed Aboard Unmanned Aircraft on U.S. Borders U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been flying unmanned aerial vehicles on the U.S. border for six years now and the aircraft are in more demand than ever, said the chief of the agencies' aviation office.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Role of Unmanned Aircraft Questioned Where and when UAVs can fly in U.S. airspace remains the purview of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has taken a conservative stance on their use. The FAA may be busy in the coming months.
National Defense November 2011 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol to Unveil New Strategy, Doctrine The Border Patrol will release a revamped strategy by the end of the year that will reflect new realities on the ground as well as the influx of technologies it has received during the past decade.
National Defense May 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Seeks Firms to Repair Border Fence The Department of Homeland Security is seeking contractors to repair and maintain fences along the U.S.-Mexico border.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Bill Coming Due for Last Decade's Border Buildup Congressional mandates of the 2000s designed to bolster the Southwest border are coming back to impact the federal budget in a negative way, said a former Customs and Border Protection commissioner.
National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Safety Concerns Still Blocking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles From National Airspace The Pentagon, along with the Department of Homeland Security and NASA, has been negotiating with the Federal Aviation Administration for years to allow unmanned aerial vehicles to gain regular access to the national airspace.
National Defense March 2015 Stew Magnuson	DHS Budget Request Has Little for Maligned Border Drone Program A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report slammed Customs and Border Protection's use of its unmanned aerial vehicle fleet, saying it was underused, very costly and that there was little evidence to support its effectiveness.
National Defense May 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	DHS Struggles to Find Effective Measures for Border Security Since 2010, the Department of Homeland Security has been working on its Border Condition Index. The index -- which is meant to evaluate the state of border security -- will examine data and trends, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Israeli Firm's Subsidiary Tapped to Build New Border Towers After almost two years of gathering solicitations and testing systems, Customs and Border Protection awarded a contract for a series of new fixed towers in southern Arizona to the U.S. subsidiary of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems.
National Defense August 2007 Stew Magnuson	National Guard Plugs Gaps for Border Patrol in the Southwest The U.S. Border Patrol has asked the Guard members participating in Operation Jump Start to serve as their eyes and ears by manning spots along the road.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Plans Under Way to Beef Up Porous Northern Border The northern border between the U.S. and Canada has its own set of issues in that the smuggling and drug trafficking is bi-directional. The administration intend to beef up security along this border.
BusinessWeek October 23, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	Boeing's Border Control Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is getting started on its $2 billion contract from the Homeland Security Dept. to build a 6,000-foot "virtual fence" along the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Wages Daily Battle Against Smugglers As new immigration legislation winds through the House and Senate this year -- and lawmakers debate the 2007 budget request for boosts in both technology funding and manpower -- the demand in the US for cheap labor and narcotics promises to continue unabated.
National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Expansion of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in U.S. Skies Prompts DHS to Set Up New Program The Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate is setting up a new small unmanned aerial vehicle program ahead of the technology's expected integration into U.S. national airspace.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.
National Defense November 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS Reports Huge Interest in New Border Camera Program With so few new acquisition programs in the pipeline at the Defense Department, it is perhaps no surprise that all the major contractors are competing for Customs and Border Protection's latest attempt to field a $1.5 billion camera system in the Southwest.
National Defense September 2010 Magnuson & Fugate	DHS May Wait 14 Years To Complete Its UAV Fleet Department of Homeland Security officials said they need 24 unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the U.S. border, and carry out other domestic missions such as disaster relief.
National Defense February 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Mulls Maritime Predator as Northern Version Takes Flight The first Customs and Border Protection Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle arrived in December at Grand Forks, N.D., where it will conduct regular patrols of the northern border.
National Defense May 2006 Michael Peck	`Dysfunctional' Interagency Coordination Hampers Domestic Deployment of Drones The Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, and Homeland Security have ideas to use unmanned aircraft, but the Federal Aviation Administration is leery about adding robots to the already populated national airspace.
National Defense April 2009 Rusling et al.	Border Patrol Meets Hiring Goals, Looks to Add More Officers U.S. Customs and Border Protection now employs more than 18,000 border personnel, and aims to increase the number to 20,000 by September.
National Defense November 2012 Stew Magnuson	Wide Area Surveillance Sensors Prove Value on Battlefields Heidi Breslow, a retired Marine Corps corporal and battlefield intelligence analyst, described how she would use unmanned aerial vehicles coupled with the latest wide area airborne surveillance sensors to help protect ground troops.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Border Agencies to Fly Maritime Unpiloted Aircraft in Caribbean Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard will begin flying a maritime version of the MQ-9 Predator B Guardian unmanned aircraft vehicle out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in January.
National Defense December 2010 Karen L. Jones	A Single Recipe For Boosting the Economy, Fixing the Border and Making Clean Energy Setting up a renewable energy corridor near the Imperial County/Mexico border also offers important practical advantages
National Defense August 2008 Sara Peck	Civilian Drones Have Yet to Pass Weather Test Researchers at the Army's White Sands Missile Range in Arizona are developing weather forecasting software to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in a variety of climates.
National Defense December 2006 Stew Magnuson	Homeland Security Tussles with GAO Over Radiation Portals A DHS official said he was confident that the next generation of portals designed to find nuclear materials in shipping containers will work despite a withering GAO report questioning performance data and their high price tags.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	Saudi Arabia Securing its Borders with Sensors and Software The Saudis awarded lead contractor EADS a program -- reportedly worth billions of dollars -- to secure the country with a virtual high-tech fence.
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson	Domestic Unpiloted Aircraft May Use 'Tunneling' to Fly in National Airspace The concept called "tunneling," requires the setting up of safe corridors through airways and the pre-placement of sensors at points along the way.