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Border Patrol Looking To Acquire New Capabilities Rapidly, Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

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Border Patrol Looking To Acquire New Capabilities Rapidly, Official Says

Elbit Systems of America offering for the Border Patrol's requirement for a mobile, modular surveillance system. Photo: Calvin Biesecker

SAN ANTONIO, Texas—To meet rapidly evolving threats on the nation’s borders, the Border Patrol wants to obtain new technologies and capabilities faster than ever using non-traditional procurement processes so that front line operators can evaluate what works for them and what doesn’t and then move quickly into acquiring systems to be deployed, a Border Patrol agent said this week. “One of the biggest challenges we have is putting stuff in the hands of the operators as soon as we can,”…

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