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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
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. |
Reason
November 2004
Hanah Metchis |
Judge, Jury, and Cop A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the Border Patrol, says deportation procedures that could take up to 12 months in the past can be processed in just a few days under a new policy. |
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
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
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. |
Job Journal
December 7, 2008
Julia Hollister |
Protecting the Public From international ports to city parks, public safety officers are on the lookout. |
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
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
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
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). |
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... |
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 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced. |
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. |
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
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
August 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Border Patrol Still Looking For the Ultimate Tough Truck If a manufacturer has built an off-road truck tough enough to withstand the punishment the Border Patrol inflicts on its vehicles, the agency would like to see it. |
National Defense
August 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Border Patrol Receives Unexpected Technology Boost Hundreds of obsolete Javelin missile weapon sights collecting dust in a warehouse have been given new life with the U.S. Border Patrol. |
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
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. |
Reason
April 2007
Malia Politzer |
"It's Our Job to Stop That Dream" The endless, futile work of the U.S. Border Patrol. |
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. |
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
July 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Troops Use Frontier for Real-World Training The U.S. Army's Joint Task Force North had its origins in the beginning of the so-called war on drugs in the late 1980s. Its goal is to support law enforcement agencies to deter transnational threats to the homeland. |
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. |
Reason
February 2009
Radley Balko |
Checkpoint Diego Should the courts uphold suspicionless and increasingly invasive border searches under a vague national security exception, most Americans could essentially forfeit their Fourth Amendment rights in exchange for the privilege of driving. |
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
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
February 2014
Stew Magnuson |
DHS-Funded Center Experiments With Virtual Border Officers A Department of Homeland Security funded program recently demonstrated the ability to replace border guards with a computer-generated substitute that can interrogate travelers while picking up the telltale signs of deceit. |
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
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
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
December 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Ultra-Light Aircraft Emerge As Newest Threat On Southwest Border After several years of cat-and-mouse games with Mexican smugglers who tunnel under southwest land crossings, Customs and Border Protection has had to play defense in the air. Ultra-light aircraft have emerged as the latest challenge to agents. |
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
August 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Asa Hutchinson Watchful of the Diplomacy of Security The border between Mexico and the United States is more than a massive stretch of arid land. It's also the 2,000-mile long nexus of homeland security and international diplomacy. |
National Defense
April 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Drones Patrolling the Border The Border Patrol will fly a second unmanned aerial vehicle over the Arizona desert beginning this June. The first Predator B flight assisted in nabbing more than 1,000 illegal immigrants and 400 pounds of narcotics. |
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 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. |
Reason
March 2009
Mike Riggs |
Shot by the Sheriff Artists protest a border crackdown in Arizona. |
