By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Homeland Security shouldn’t worry about finding sophisticated drones for the border.
The agency received so many bids to provide compact drones that the federal government ended the submission process two months early, NBC News reports.
“As this was a pilot program, we were hoping to see a robust response from industry, but did not have a specific target [number of bids] in mind,” said Ari Shuler, director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Technology Innovation Program. “Our team’s expectations were exceeded as we received more than three dozen proposals.”
These aren’t just any drones. They are designed to identify people from the air using facial recognition technology, and the drones are capable of tracking people for at least 3 miles.
Border Patrol has used drones since 2005, but the technology is nowhere near as sophisticated as it is today.
