RVSS initial deployment complete
General Dynamics has successfully completed the initial field deployment and test of the new Remote Video Surveillance System (RVSS) for the US Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the company announced on 16 October.
The RVSS advanced infrared multi-sensor and wide-area electro-optical camera system provides border patrol agents with persistent ground-surveillance and real-time video analytics to effectively classify, detect, track, identify and respond to threats along the US borders.
General Dynamics has deployed a new command-and-control system and installed upgraded RVSS camera suites on five new and 12 legacy tower sites supporting the Nogales Border Patrol Station.
US Border Patrol agents are currently operating the RVSS in Nogales, Arizona; and CBP has also initiated deployments in both Naco and Douglas, Arizona.
CBP awarded General Dynamics One Source the contract to upgrade RVSS along the southern US border in July 2013. The contract has a potential value of $103 million over 10 years with all options exercised.
Mark Borkowski, assistant commissioner and chief acquisition executive, CBP's office of technology innovation and acquisition, said: ‘The RVSS is a critical element of our overall plan to secure the border, increase our mission effectiveness and protect our agents.
'The General Dynamics team has done a great job honouring its commitments and we are excited to have achieved an initial operating capability in our first area of responsibility. We look forward to continuing this strong relationship, and to completing the rest of our Arizona deployments over the next year.’
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