In recent years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has worked together with U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) to improve situational awareness at our northern border by establishing enterprise capabilities that give agents access to more data sources, decision support tools to translate the data into actionable information and intelligence, and information-sharing resources to enable collaboration with partner law enforcement agencies. In summer 2019, as part of these ongoing efforts to address security vulnerabilities along the U.S./Canadian border, S&T and USBP conducted a field test of airborne and terrestrial tactical surveillance technologies at USBP Havre Sector in Sweetgrass, Montana. The event illustrated the potential efficacy from integration of multiple technologies to provide portable situational awareness capabilities. And this past June, they returned to Montana for a focused assessment for the performance of one such technology—Somewear's Global Hotspot—in an extended operational evaluation. The Somewear Global Hotspot is an emerging cost-effective satellite communications (SATCOM) device. Somewear, the device vendor, was selected through S&T's Long-Range Broad Area Announcement (LRBAA) solicitation process following a preliminary field analysis of several similar SATCOM device vendors in the market. "The focus of S&T's investment is threefold. First is to add security controls into the already-available commercial product so that it can be approved for transmitting and receiving official DHS data," said S&T Program Manager Shawn McDonald. | | | | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security ·
www.dhs.gov · 202-282-8000
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