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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
August 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Military Technology Considered For U.S. Border Surveillance Raven unmanned aerial vehicles, blimps with cameras that could peer into Mexico and electro-optical cameras are among the items that could be used on the border. |
National Defense
September 2009
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Inspector General Slams Secure Border Initiative Oversight The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has faulted Customs and Border Protection for failing to properly oversee work on the Secure Border Initiative. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
Telephonics Corp. Technology Selected for Mobile Surveillance Systems for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Telephonics Electronic Systems Division are providing technology to increase the border patrol areas of coverage in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's SBInet program. |
National Defense
September 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Firms That Help DHS Save Money Will Make Money, Analysts Say The days of big price tag, cutting-edge technology acquisitions at the Department of Homeland Security are over. |
National Defense
November 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Budget Crunch Sharply Reducing the Amount DHS Spends on Contracts The amount of money the Department of Homeland Security spends on contracts for goods and services is falling by about $2 billion per year, according to one industry analyst. |
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. |
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
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. |
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
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
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
August 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Budget Woes End DHS Plans to Expand Drone Fleet The Department of Homeland Security had plans as late as last year to increase its fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles to two dozen aircraft by 2016, but tight federal budgets has capped their numbers at 10. |
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
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2006 |
DHS Employs GTS Command and Control System to Boost Border Patrol Efforts Executives at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Southeastern Arizona opted to bolster the border-security system with FusionCommand technology Global Technical Systems (GTS). |
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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005 |
Homeland Security Briefs DHS begins second phase of Arizona border effort... Northrop Grumman lays keel for National Security Cutter... DHS announces support for rail hazmat placards... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2006
Courtney E. Howard |
Lockheed Martin to Build $16 Million Border Enforcement Solutions Center for SBInet Initiative Lockheed Martin Corp. is investing $16 million over two years to build a Border Enforcement Solutions Center (BESC) in support of SBInet, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) multiyear plan to secure America's borders. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2011
Jason Moser |
Rising Star Buy: Elbit Systems This Fool searched high and low to find a defense company with the right qualities. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2004 |
Briefs T.F. Green Airport testing explosive trace- detection technology for pilot program... DHS UAVs operating in Arizona support border security... DHS launches Office of Inter-operability and Compatibility... etc. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2009
Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? (The 2009 Boxed Set) It's been a good year for unmanned aerial vehicles -- and a great year for investing in 'em. Here's an update on who's who and what's what in the exciting world of flying model airplanes that kill. |
National Defense
August 2009
Gellerson & Breitbach |
Disorganization Within Border Patrol Cited For Faulty Budget Customs and Border Protection has been using unreliable numbers to estimate the cost of recruiting, training and equipping thousands of newly deployed Border Patrol agents, the Government Accountability Office has found. |
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
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
March 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Program to Modernize Immigration Info-Tech System Mired in Delays A joint CBP and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement program to modernize the system, which determines the admissibility of some 900,000 visitors and 465,000 vehicles daily is on its eighth year of development with little to show for it, and Congress is taking note. |
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
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
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
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
April 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Napolitano Defends DHS Acquisitions on Department's 10-Year Anniversary As the Department of Homeland Security marked its first decade of existence in March, Secretary Janet Napolitano said its much-derided acquisition system had turned a corner. |
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
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 |
