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Monday, May 24, 2004

U.S. nearing deal on virtual borders way to track foreign visitors via NYTimes

The Department of Homeland Security, US governmeny is on the verge of awarding the biggest contract in its young history for an elaborate system that could cost as much as $15 billion and employ a network of databases to track visitors to the United States long before they arrive.The program, known as US-Visit and rooted partly in a Pentagon concept developed after the terrorist attacks of 2001, seeks to supplant the nation's physical borders with what officials call virtual borders. Such borders employ networks of computer databases and biometric sensors for identification at sites abroad where people seek visas to the United StatesVirtual borders is a high-concept plan, building on ideas that have been tried since the terrorist attacks of 2001.With a virtual border in place, the actual border guard will become the last point of defense, rather than the first, because each visitor will have already been screened using a global web of databases.Visitors arriving at checkpoints, including those at the Mexican and Canadian borders, will face "real-time identification" — instantaneous authentication to confirm that they are who they say they are. American officials will, at least in theory, be able to track them inside the United States and determine if they leave the country on time.Accenture, Computer Sciences and Lockheed Martin are in the race to win the bid.

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