Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has awarded a contract to Griffon Corp.’s [GFF] Telephonics unit to provide the Border Patrol with mobile surveillance system for detecting, tracking and classifying small and slow-moving targets of interest on the United States border with Mexico.
Telephonics said that the base value of its Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC) contract is $13.5 million and contains options. The order includes deliveries and integrated logistics support.
The production contract follows a nine-month Operational Utility Evaluation of two Telephonics MSC vehicles on the southwest border.
Telephonics calls its MSC system the Radar and Video Enforcement Network-Mobile, which integrates ground surveillance radar and camera systems for border security and critical infrastructure applications. The system can operate as a stand-alone system or as a networked, virtual fence, the company said.
“MSC enhances the effectiveness of our nation’s very capable Border Patrol agents by providing them with a suite of advanced sensors integrated with a sophisticated decision-making tool set, to successfully detect, classify, track and ultimately apprehend lawbreakers at our borders.”
The system can be deployed in a variety of rugged terrain, Telephonics said.
The MSC contract follows a $50 million award by CBP late last October to Tactical Micro for the Mobile Video Surveillance System or MVSS. The MVSS system consists of day and night camera systems fitted on telescopic poles mounted on Border Patrol 4 x 4 vehicles. Tactical Micro is part of Secure Technology Company.
CBP’s border security technology plan also includes Integrated Fixed Towers supplied by Israel’s Elbit Systems [ESLT] and the Remote Video Surveillance System supplied by General Dynamics [GD].