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USBP is part of U.S. Customs and Bor- www.AmericanSecurityToday.com der Protection (CBP), the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Secu- rity (DHS), and is the country’s primary border control organization. System’s long-range geospatial video January 2019 - Edition 31 analytics. The MVSS program, won by Tactical Micro of Fredericksburg VA, a division of Bench- mark Electronics, consists of a complete mobile surveillance platform to aid the The priority mission of the USBP is prevent- U.S. Border Patrol to track and identi- ing terrorists and terrorists weapons, in- fy Items of Interest (IOI) along the U.S. cluding weapons of mass destruction, from southwest border. entering the United States, and this inno- The “Eagle” Mobile Video Surveillance vative solution offers significant value to Border Patrol agents in the field towards System (MVSS) stand-alone mobile sur- that end, including rapid deployment and veillance system includes an all-terrain pickup with a surveillance sensor pay- ease of use. load mounted on a pneumatic mast Today.com The MVSS from which includes the PureAc- system, capable of raising the sensors up tiv Command and Control and PureTech to a height of 30 feet. (Learn More about the Mobile Video Surveillance Program (MVSS). Courtesy of Fox 5 News, Benchmark Electronics and Vimeo.) 31