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Homeland Security

General Dynamics Completes Pilot Of Transportable Border Security System In Texas

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 1st, 2018

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General Dynamics Completes Pilot Of Transportable Border Security System In Texas

Remote Video Surveillance System sensor suite atop a monopole. Photo: General Dynamics

General Dynamics [GD] has successfully completed a pilot testing and an initial deployment in South Texas of a border security surveillance system designed to shift with evolving illegal cross-border activity.GD said six of its Relocatable-Remote Video Surveillance Systems (RVSS) have been deployed in Laredo and McAllen, Texas, with additional deployments planned in South Texas in 2018.The RVSS systems include and electro-optic and infrared camera package, laser illuminator, spotlight, and related communications to provide Border Patrol agents at a command and…

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