DHS Border and Maritime Security Division

Focus

Border security

• Improved ballistic protection via personal protective equipment
• Improve detection, tracking, and identification of all threats along the terrestrial and maritime border
• Non-lethal compliance measures for vehicles, vessels, or aircraft allowing for safe interdiction by law enforcement personnel
• Non-destructive tools that allow for the inspection of hidden or closed compartments to find contraband or security threats
• Improved analysis and decision-making tools that will ensure the development/implementation of border security initiatives
• Ability for law enforcement personnel to quickly identify the origin of gunfire and classify the type of weapon fired
• Ability for law enforcement officers to assure compliance of lawful orders using non-lethal means

  Cargo security

• Enhanced screening and examination by non-intrusive inspection
• Increased information fusion, anomaly detection, Automatic Target Recognition capability
• Detect and identify WMD materials and contraband
• Capability to screen 100% of air cargo
• Test the feasibility of seal security; Detection of intrusion
• Track domestic high-threat cargo
• Harden air cargo conveyances and containers
• Positive ID of cargo & detection

  Maritime security

• Wide-area surveillance from the coast to beyond the horizon; port and inland waterways region - detect, ID, and track
• Data fusion and automated tools for command center operations
• Vessel compliance through non-lethal compliance methods
• Enhanced capability to continuously track contraband on ships or containers
• Improved ballistic personal protective equipment for officer safety
• Improved WMD detection equipment for officer safety; improved screening capability for WMD for maritime security checkpoints