Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hopes to begin moving toward limited operational deployments of the electronic fence portion of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) in a month or two in order to gather feed back from the user community--namely the Border Patrol--and be able to make a decision late this year whether the system is ready to be deployed throughout the State of Arizona's border with Mexico, says the official in charge of the program. Depending on the funding requested…
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