
Customs and Border Protection has wasted several years in developing technologies that would reduce the manual burdens associated with detecting threats and contraband in vehicles and cargo screened by non-intrusive inspection (NII) systems as they enter the U.S. at ports of entry, congressional appropriators say in recent reports. Now, Congress intends to see that CBP gets going on a plan for introducing artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) into the NII systems. Once the agency’s budget for fiscal year 2023…