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CBP Deploys Additional Sensor Towers To Replace Legacy SBINet Systems

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 7th, 2019

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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, 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…

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