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Homeland Security

CBP Begins SBInet Construction on Northern Border, Deploys Mobile Systems

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last month began deploying eight new surveillance towers in the Border Patrol's Detroit, Mich., Sector for the Northern Border Project component of the Secure Border Initiative technology program called SBInet. In addition, CBP has already acquired three Mobile Surveillance Systems from Telephonics and has begun to operate them in two sectors of the northern border, Detroit and Swainton, Vt., Mark Borkowski, CBP's director of the SBI program, tells TR2. Telephonics is a division of Griffon…

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