HR 7832 · 118th Congress · Immigration
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
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EnactedLatest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 754.(2024-12-19)
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Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security to develop a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy emerging and innovative technologies to improve border security operations. Such technologies may incorporate artificial intelligence, machine-learning, automation, fiber-optic sensing technology, nanotechnology, optical and cognitive radar, modeling and simulation technology, hyperspectral and LIDAR sensors, and imaging, identification, and categorization systems. The bill authorizes CBP to establish one or more Innovation Teams to research and adapt commercial technologies that may be used by CBP. The plan must describe how the Innovation Teams have been implemented and also detail goals and timelines for adoption of qualifying technologies; metrics and key performance parameters for determining the plan's effectiveness; which technologies used by other federal agencies CBP may also utilize; which existing authorities CBP may use to procure technologies; how CBP legacy border technology programs may be replaced; the expected privacy and se…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 7832, Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
May 23, 2024As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on April 10, 2024
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office