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Senate and House Appropriators Agree: CBP Needs to Invest in AI/ML for NII Systems

Senate and House Appropriators Agree: CBP Needs to Invest in AI/ML for NII Systems

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…

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