The office of Field Operations job is to facilitate legitimate trade and travel, while maintaining a list of those who cannot entry enter our country. Also, the supporting element, which provides intervention support. These components rely heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. Technology is a crucible a crucial multiplier, and the right mix of infrastructure, personnel, and technology has worked for the last 20 years. Instead of focusing on the gadgets and gizmos and repeated failures we have had, i think it is important to think strategically about the decisionmaking process. Those who mean to exploit our border for illicit purposes. Destroy that process by using usenology will help better the funding to secure the border in the long term. I want to take a hard look at the Role Technology plays in predicting, deterring, and detecting Illicit Activity along border. St order it is difficult to measure or accomplish. Discouraging bad actors from crossing the batter the borde
It is to facilitate those while keeping a list of drugs and people. Air and marine is the supporting element which provides air and Situational Awareness. All three of these critical border lie heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. It is a Crucial Force multiplier and part of a multilayered approach. It was used for at least 20 years now. Instead of focusing solely on the gadgets in the gizmos in the many repeated failures weve had either gets important to think strategically about the decisionmaking process. Better to use the allocated funding in the long term. Today i want to take a hard look at the role that technology plays in helping to predict deter the text and finally interdict the activity. It is the ideal goal of the nations security effort. Its difficult to measure. For security processes they made a may decide its not worth the risk. Essentially deterrence is predicated on two things. The perception that it is a costly endeavor and the likelihood of success is
Again or what it will take to secure the borders in the primary responsibility of the agencies by witnesses today. Border patrol is our Operation Force between cdps opposite Field Operations jobs to facilitate trade and travel to keep people from entering our country at the ports of entry. Air and entry. Aaron arenas for supporting unit which provides air and Maritime Interdiction support operations on the ground. All three of these security components rely heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. Technology is a Crucial Force multiplier in a multilayered approach of the right mix of infrastructure personnel and Technology Use for at least 20 years now. Instead of focusing solely on the gadget and gizmos than the many repeated failures weve had, import and to think strategically about the decisionmaking process for illicit purposes. Distracting the process by leveraging technology will help custom Border Protection that is the allocated funding to secure the border in the lon
Assistant commissioner alles. Assistant commissioner alles thank you, sir. And good afternoon, sir. Good to see you again. You may recall we last visited our site in Corpus Christi in january. Thank you for coming down to see that. I would encourage any members of the committee to come visit our sites. I think thats very beneficial in understanding what we do better. As you noted, the office is a critical component of our later border strategy. The personnel operate 257 aircraft, 283 vessels and Sophisticated Network across the u. S. , puerto rico and the virgin islands. Oams critical and Maritime Missions fall into four areas, main awareness, investigation, interdiction and Contingency Operations and national taskings. We not only contribute to the security of our land border, but facilitate efforts with the coast guard to secure the coastal shoreline through the coordinated use of integrated air and marine forces. Since the consolidation of air and Marine Assets 11 years ago we have
We conclude it was not the right system to go across the entire border and was much too expensive. We scaled down our ambition somewhat and selected and much more modest portfolio of systems that the Border Patrol selected and tailored to each area of the border. We focus that on arizona because thats what action was at the time. We are in the throes of completing a plan, it consists of everything from small handheld longerrange binoculars like sensors to more complex systems on hightowers with radars and cameras that are connected in a commandandcontrol center. The purpose of the systems is to get the Border Patrol better information about whats on the ground, what the threat of that activity is, whether its a microburst somebody carrying a weapon, and more options for how to respond. Outside of arizona the Border Patrol as indicated to us that his activity there is migration because weve done things in arizona, traffic has migrated over a variety of other reasons. South texas you kno