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Homeland Security

CBP Deploys Additional Sensor Towers to Replace Legacy SBINet Systems

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019

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CBP Deploys Additional Sensor Towers to Replace Legacy SBINet Systems

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

Customs and Border Protection late last fall began testing and is now operating new fixed sensor towers in two new locations along the southwest border in Arizona, bringing the number of border miles covered by the Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT) system to around 200. The installations were completed in the Tucson and Ajo Border Patrol areas of responsibility in late fall for system acceptance testing and now the IFT systems are operational, Gordon Kesting, vice president for Homeland Security for…

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