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Cyber

Land Border Pilot Showed That Travelers Are Comfortable With Cameras For Face Recognition, CBP Official Say

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

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Land Border Pilot Showed That Travelers Are Comfortable With Cameras For Face Recognition, CBP Official Say

Unidentified traveler submitting a fingerprint at a Customs and Border Protection workstation. Photo: CBP

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is continuing to lean toward capturing facial photos of departing foreign nationals on international flights as the biometric of choice in its nascent program to help verify the departure of these individuals from the United States in accordance with their visas, an agency official said on Thursday.A pilot project earlier this year at a land port of entry in Southern California that involved multiple biometrics to monitor the entry and exit of pedestrians entering from…

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]

Congress

House Heads For Recess Without Moving On NDAA After Procedural Vote Fails

The House will leave for the Fourth of July recess without moving forward on its $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a procedural vote to […]