updated Mon. December 4, 2023
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Virginian-Pilot
April 17, 2018
Unveiled with great fanfare in 2006, the plan, called the Secure Border Initiative Network, envisioned a network of radar and camera towers linked to ground sensors that would provide constant surveillance and the ability to coordinate with Border Patrol agents on the ground to interdict crossers. But the $1Ãâà...
legal Insurrection (blog)
April 4, 2018
This two-year deployment supplements and supports current efforts while CBP hires and trains 6,000 additional Border Patrol agents and implements the Secure Border Initiative and SBInet. Badges Back to the Border. National Guard units assist CBP by executing logistical and administrative support,Ãâà...
Economic Times (blog)
March 20, 2018
Obama administration also initiated a program, known as SBInet, and set out a five-year timetable for it's completion. But financial crunch and persistent questioning by the US Congress about the feasibility of the plan forced the US officials to cut funding and adopt more cost-effective ways to fence theÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
April 18, 2017
In November 2005, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the launch of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI)--a multiyear, multibillion dollar ... In a September 2008 testimony, GAO reported that CBP plans to initially deploy SBInet technology along the southwest border had slipped from theÃâà...
IEEE Spectrum
February 28, 2011
Several years ago, I wrote in my blog for IEEE Spectrum that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Secure Border Initiative's SBInet, the "virtual fence" project that was supposed to build a sensor-, radar-, and camera-arrayed fence along the U.S.–Mexico border, was finished, kaput. It wasn't a matterÃâà...
Washington Technology
January 14, 2011
“SBInet cannot meet its original objective of providing a single, integrated border security technology solution,” Napolitano said in a statement. “DHS briefed Congress today on my decision to end SBInet as originally conceived and on a new path forward for security technology along the Southwest border.
