Fast-track passage of the “Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act” (HR 993)

The bill

Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act

Topic: Immigration

What the bill does

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.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary

Bill on congress.gov(opens in a new tab)