• U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced that a tech-enabled system for monitoring and securing the U.S. border has become a program of record for the agency.
• These systems, called autonomous surveillance towers, use renewable energy to provide around-the-clock tracking of remote border areas. Outfitted with radar equipment, the units scan the environment to detect movement, orient the camera to the location of the movement and analyze the imagery to autonomously identify items of interest, such as people or vehicles, according to a CBP press statement. Border Patrol agents are then alerted and have the opportunity to make the final determination on what the item is and if it poses a threat.
• Although not mentioned in the CBP announcement, the Washington Post reported soon afterwards that the Trump administration has awarded a contract for a rollout of the towers along the southern border. The five-year agreement with California-based AI firm Anduril Industries is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Post.

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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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