2027 Agenda

During this panel discussion with Customs and Border Protection team, learn about counter-UAS, surveillance challenges, and communications backhaul challenges. CBP utilizes drones to surveil and track illegal border activity with various forms of detection technologies along with mitigation capabilities to counter illicit groups surveillance objectives. CBP drones work in concert with several hundred surveillance towers via network backhaul to enable various sector and stations to conduct real time enforcement operations. CBP towers have been equipped with electro-optical, infrared, and radar solutions designed specifically for different types of terrain features located along the southwest border. The Northern border surveillance modernization will begin in 2027.