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Homeland Security

Tech Developments

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, March 2nd, 2020

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Tech Developments

Customs and Border Protection is implementing facial recognition checks for travelers departing from and arriving to the U.S. by air. The agency is also rolling out the technology for people entering the U.S. on foot. Photo: CBP

CBP Bringing Facial Comparison to Brownsville Port of Entry Customs and Border Protection has deployed facial comparison technology to pedestrian lanes at the Brownsville, Texas, port of entry to enhance the identity verification process for lawful entry into the U.S. When a traveler arrives at the pedestrian lanes, he or she will pause for a photo at the primary inspection station. A CBP officer will review and query the travel document, which will retrieve the traveler’s passport or visa photo…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]