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Cyber

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

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Monday, November 22nd, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker Not wanting to be tied into any single company's 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 said last week. CBP was created after 9/11 out of a number of different agencies that had little technical integration between them, and…

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