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CBP Awards Elbit $26M for Final Installment of Surveillance Towers in Arizona

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 9th, 2019

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CBP Awards Elbit $26M for Final Installment of Surveillance Towers in Arizona

Top of Integrated Fixed Tower system installed by Elbit Systems of America in Arizona. Photo: Elbit America

CBP Awards Elbit $26 Million For Final Installment of Surveillance Towers in Arizona Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has awarded Elbit Systems of America a $26 million order for the sixth, and final, installation of surveillance towers in Arizona under a $143.5 million contract the company won in 2014. The deployment of 10 Integrated Fixed Towers (IFT) in the Border Patrol’s Casa Grande, Ariz., area of responsibility, adds to the approximately 55 surveillance towers Elbit has already deployed elsewhere in…

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