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Homeland Security

CBP Innovation Office Focused On Autonomy, Communications, Sensors, Data And Health

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

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CBP Innovation Office Focused On Autonomy, Communications, Sensors, Data And Health

Remote Video Surveillance System sensor suite atop a monopole. Photo: General Dynamics

SAN ANTONIO—A small division of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that works to leverage private sector technology investments for commercial applications that can meet the needs of front-line officers is searching for capabilities that add autonomy to solutions, data-related communications in austere environments, low-cost sensors, and monitor human health, an official with the agency’s innovation office said here on Wednesday. Regardless of the technology, the key message to industry is “agent first, agent always and make these things work,” Joshua…

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