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CBP Plans To Acquire Additional RVSS and Communication Towers

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) as part of a potential plan to further expand deployments of a video surveillance system it uses along portions of America’s southwest and northern borders.The plan calls for acquiring and deploying 156 additional Remote Video Surveillance Systems (RVSS), which are equipped with day and night cameras, 42 new communications relay towers, and 31 new Border Patrol station towers. The RFI says that the communications and station towers are…

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