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CBP Issues RFI for New Sensor Towers on Southwest Border

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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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Wasting little time in its effort to continue to find technological solutions to help secure the nation's borders, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last month issued a Request for Information (RFI) for new sensor-based Integrated Fixed Towers (IFT) that would be deployed on the southwest border to help detect and identify illegal activity. CBP says in a Jan. 18 notice in the FedBizOpps.gov web site that it is seeking IFT solutions that are either commercial or government-off-the-shelf that would be…

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