Oct 30 2010
Unisys has received Land Border Integration (LBI) contract from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency of the Department of Homeland Security for developing an automated system for enhanced detection of vehicles and persons crossing the US land that borders with Canada and Mexico.
The base contract period is one year, and its value is $29 million. The contract also features four one-year options and the worth of every additional year is nearly $25 million. The maximum value of the contract over five years is approximately $350 million. All these options will be enforced at the discretion of the government.
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) contract which was previously offered to Unisys was enforced on June 1, 2009, at all entry points of land and sea. This contract enabled the utilization of automated license plate reader (LPR) technology, which can monitor all the vehicles entering and exiting the border. The WHTI contract also employed radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for verifying citizenship and recognizing travelers with WHTI approval and travel documents enabled with RFID. The successful outcomes of this project have enabled Unisys and CBP to work on further expansion with the help of superior technologies and methods for offering enhanced security to the US land border. LPR is the key feature of the "triangle strategy," which assures the availability of information at every checkpoint in the CBP procedure.
Ted Davies, President of Unisys Federal Systems, has stated that the WHTI project has been a significant initiative of home land security, and he added that they are determined to work with CBP for offering improved safety at the US border.
Source: http://www.unisys.com/