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Homeland Security

CBP Outlines Needs For New Video Surveillance Towers On Border

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Thursday, February 17th, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is conducting a market survey for its new persistent wide video surveillance capability it plans to deploy as part of a new and layered technology approach to border security in the wake of terminating the electronic fence component of the Secure Border Initiative last month. The agency this week released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Remote Video Surveillance System (RVSS) Generation II, which will provide electro-optic and infrared sensor surveillance…

Congress

Industry Groups ‘Urge’ Congress To Block Stock Buyback Restriction From Final FY ‘27 NDAA

More than three dozen industry associations on Monday called on congressional defense committee leaders to scrap a provision in the final version of the next National Defense Authorization Act that […]

Congress

Senior GOP HASC Members Wittman, Turner Ousted Amid Dems’ Blue Wave

Two senior Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, including a potential frontrunner for the panel’s top GOP role, have officially lost their reelection bids. Reps. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and […]

Congress

Dems’ Big Night Set To Reshape Top Defense Committee Spots, As Key GOP’ers Knocked Off

Democrats’ sweeping victories in Tuesday’s midterms, taking back control of the House and Senate, are set to reshape key spots atop defense committees, to include House Armed Services panels and […]

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]