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Homeland Security

Briefing

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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*General Electric [GE] says its CommerceGuard container security device (CSD) was selected by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to move into Phase II of the agency's review of CSD systems. CBP issued a Request for Information late last year seeking responses from vendors with conveyance security devices that could report if, and when, cargo container doors are opened or closed and communicate that information wirelessly via secure fixed and handheld readers (TR2, Jan. 9). Phase I of the program was…

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