
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday released a congressionally-mandated multi-year investment plan for its inspection and detection systems used to image containers and other conveyances at the nation’s ports of entry that shows a need for hundreds of various systems in the coming years.CBP currently operates a fleet of 315 large-scale non-intrusive inspection (NII) systems and 4,204 small-scale NII systems, with 14 percent of the large-scale systems at or past their estimated useful life as of Sept. 30, 2015,…