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The government’s funding request in fiscal year 2021 for border security technology favors new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tower systems that can autonomously detect illegal border crossing activity, the head of Customs and Border Protection told a House budget panel in late February. The Border Patrol was asked to prioritize their technology needs during the FY ’21 budget build and said they need the Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs), Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of CBP, told the House Appropriations Homeland Security…
