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CBP Developing Acquisition Strategy For Tethered Aerostat Services

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from industry related to market conditions and technology as part of the agency’s development of an acquisition of surveillance blimps for border security.CBP is currently operating six of the blimps, called the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS), along the U.S. border with Mexico. There are also two additional sites where the systems are monitoring the Florida Straits and the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico.The TARS systems…

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