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Homeland Security

Briefing

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

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*Boeing [BA] received a $20 million contract from Customs and Border Protection to conduct technology design and deployment for the SBInet Northern Border Project. Under the one-year contract, which concludes March 30, 2010, Boeing will provide 11 Remote Video Surveillance Systems in the Detroit, Mich., Border Patrol Sector and five systems in the Buffalo, N.Y., sector for a proof-of-concept to determine how well the technology performs in the those environments. The RVSS are in use in the Southwest border of…

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