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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

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Briefing

Customs and Border Protection plans to award a contract to Dejero for small unmanned aircraft mobile transmitters. The value of the award was redacted. CBP says Canada-based Dejero is the only company with the patented technology to support live video feed via multiple sim cards and multiple service providers simultaneously, providing coverage in signally-challenged areas along the border. Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] has received a $1.6 million contract from Customs and Border Protection to provide isotope radio mass spectrometry. The…

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