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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
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
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
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 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
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
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 2007
Robert H. Williams |
Camera Offers Sharp Color in Gloom of Night An advanced camera designed by Toshiba of Irvine, Calif., is delivering high-resolution color surveillance video in extremely low light conditions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005
Ben Ames |
Goodrich to bolster optoelectronic capability with acquisition of Sensors Unlimited The move is designed to strengthen the company's position in the high-growth markets for surveillance and reconnaissance systems, as well as homeland security applications. |
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
January 2007
Hans Kobler |
From DARPA to Main Street Technologies developed for Homeland Security are moving into the public sector. |
National Defense
March 2009
Magnuson & Rusling |
Noted Police Chief Slams Federal-Local Partnerships The man who led the local police response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon hopes the new administration does a better job of coordinating counterterrorism efforts with local law enforcement. |
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 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
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
Smart Sensors Homeland security and military personnel increasingly rely on intelligent sensor technology for surveillance and electronic intelligence. |
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 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 |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2006
John McHale |
Lockheed Martin Applies Surveillance Technology to Keep Marines Safe in Iraq Lockheed Martin experts, together with the Chicago and Los Angeles police departments, are employing counter-insurgency (COIN) surveillance technology to support urban operations conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq. |
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. |
Wired
August 2003
Michael Mechanic |
Beyond the Wall Infrared surveillance cams. Seismic field sensors. Real-time data maps. Welcome to the new US Border Patrol. |
National Defense
October 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Police Want Unpiloted Aircraft for Routine Tasks, Not Snooping, Former Chief Asserts Police departments would probably use them for more routine tasks, said Donald Shinnamon, a business development executive at UAV-maker Institu Inc., and one-time chair of the aviation committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2002
Katie Garza |
School Security Moves Into the Digital Age While VHS-based surveillance technology and real-time closed-circuit TV monitoring are widely used in schools today, several districts in Texas and Oklahoma have taken their surveillance systems into the digital age. |
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. |
Reason
February 2007
Greg Beato |
Rant: Smile, You're on the Telescreen Surveillance cameras certainly lead to more surveillance cameras, but do they lead to less crime? Perhaps it's best to oppose the post-9/11 surveillance boom on grounds of government waste rather than privacy. |
Wired
September 25, 2007
Eric Mack |
Cops Test Cannon That Fires Sticky GPS Beacons at Fleeing Cars New device allows police to track vehicles from a distance. |
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. |
