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Homeland Security

New CBP Office Stressing Non-Proprietary Solutions, Open Standards, Modularity

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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

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Not wanting to be tied into any single companies' solution and desiring to be able to quickly deploy and upgrade systems while at the same time keep life-cycle costs down, a new office in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is stressing open standards, modularity and non-proprietary solutions based on commercial investments, an agency official says. CBP was created after 9/11 out of a number of different agencies that had little technical integration between them, and carries out a combination of…

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Congress

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