Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last Friday released a draft solicitation for a forthcoming acquisition of new integrated surveillance towers for border security. The agency is planning separate procurements of its future Integrated Surveillance Towers (IST) Towers, Power, Instrumentation, and Communications (TPIC) effort and the common operating picture (COP), which will include software and the command-and-control center hardware. CBP plans to award one or more contracts for the IST TPIC by the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. A virtual…
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