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GD Wins CBP Program to Install Cameras on Southwest Border

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has awarded General Dynamics [GD] a potential 10-year, $96.4 million contract to provide day and nighttime cameras for use along portions of the nation’s southwest border in Arizona and Texas. The Remote Video Surveillance Program (RVSS) is just one component of more wide-ranging border security technology plan that arose in the wake the terminated Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet), which consisted of cameras and radars mounted on towers for integration into common operating pictures at…

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