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The Border Security Challenge |
Border security remains a key homeland security challenge.
- Border guards, surveillance operators, and command staff do not have an integrated command and control system to protect national borders.
- There is a lack of sufficient coverage from sensors and cameras. Important threats are lost in an overload of information from false alarms.
- The collaboration and communications needed for tactical intercept missions is lacking.
- Wide and diverse terrain coupled with large-scale population centers, sea ports, and national boundaries make a difficult environment to effectively scale-up border surveillance
Yet for all the advances in surveillance equipment we are still left with border guards struggling with high false alarm rates and low probability of detection and intercept.
- There are just too many cameras and not enough border forces tomonitor them all.
- Threats are lost because of too many false alarms.
- The cost of verifying targets, escalating them into threats, and dispatching response teams is too high.
- Intercept mission teams do not have effective collaboration tools.
- Intelligence and threat pattern analysis is just too timeconsuming to thwart the next intrusion.
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