
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last Friday declared a relatively new border security surveillance tower system a program of record, a key program milestone demonstrating the agency’s interest in the technology and moving it from a research and development effort to a line item in the budget. The artificial intelligence-based Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs) are supplied by California-based Anduril Industries, quickly relocatable and provide day and night surveillance coverage along portions of the southwest border. Currently, CBP has 60 ASTs…