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Border Technology
There are a multitude of agencies from numerous jurisdictions (federal,
state, provincial) that operate at or on the approach to Canada-U.S. border
crossings. Many of these agencies are currently planning or implementing
technology and information systems to help them accomplish their work.
Representatives of some of these agencies attending the Transportation
Border Working Group (TBWG) meeting in Vermont in June, 2003, identified
the need for a “process for institutional cooperation and coordination
to ensure that decision-making related to the selection of technologies
by individual agencies will result in interoperability”. The development
of a Border Information Flow Architecture (BIFA) could help guide a deliberate
effort to ensure the systems deployed at the border are able to interact
with each other. The development process could follow a process similar
to that used to develop an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Regional
Architecture.
For more information, see Border Information Flow Architecture.
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