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Sandia Researchers Develop Simulation Tool to Aid Future Border Security Plans

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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an advanced gaming and simulation platform to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP) evaluate various technologies that could aid border security between ports of entry in the future. The Borders High Level Model (HLM) is a tool that is aimed at "systems architecting" to help CBP develop the "right suite of technologies, operations and policies and all of these things that make up the border security system," Jason Reinhardt, Sandia's Borders HLM project…

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