Customs and Border Protection plans to significantly ramp up its use of facial recognition technology as part of a broader effort to upgrade its systems for vetting international travelers.
In addition to expanding its biometric capabilities, the agency is also working to migrate all of its traveler processing tech to the cloud, create more self-service tools for the public and let officers use mobile devices to verify people entering the country, officials said in a solicitation published Thursday.
CBP is looking for a vendor to assist with those upgrades and support “the full range of life cycle services” for other traveler processing applications and equipment, according to the document. The contract is scheduled to begin in December and could potentially run through May 2025.
According to the document, expanding CBP’s use of biometrics will be a major component of the modernization effort.
The agency already uses facial recognition technology to keep tabs on international travelers at more than a dozen nationwide airports and multiple checkpoints along the U.S.-Mexico border. But despite the recent backlash against federal law enforcement’s use of the tech, CBP officials expect to deploy facial recognition and other biometric identification tools more extensively in the years ahead.
“The paradigm will evolve from biographic data focused to biometric data centric,” officials said in the solicitation. “A biometric-based approach allows threats to be pushed-out further beyond our borders before travelers arrive to the U.S.”
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