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One-stop package secures borders
Tuesday, 11 September, 2007
The Harris Corporation has mounted an imaginatively designed Stand (923) that highlights its ability to offer a comprehensive turnkey border security system. Many components of the system are on display, including an example of the type of containers that can be tailored to function as border posts or a regional HQ. Dubbed the Harris Border Security Shelter, this is a key part of the system that links information and comms technologies used to detect illegal border crossings or other threats. The shelter is a rugged, self-contained command centre that combines communications, command and control and sensor systems under a single roof, tied together with either the Harris Falcon II tactical radio network or an existing networking infrastructure. The Border Security Shelter provides an IP-data backbone for receiving, synthesising and redistributing secure transmissions. Elsewhere on the stand are examples of sensors that can be integrated as part of the total border security system. These include the Falcon Watch remote imager. Once cued, the imager processes frames until it detects movement within its field of view. A low light level imager and IR camera will identify vehicles at 400m or intruders on foot at 200m. Making its debut here is a tandem-rotor UAV produced by Dragonfly Pictures headed by Michael Piasecki, whose father Frank pioneered this concept in rotary-winged aircraft. Introduced in August last year, the Dragonfly has amassed some 50 hours of test flights and has been included in proposals to two potential customers for a turnkey border security system, for which Harris International Government Systems is the prime. The electric-powered Dragonfly DP-6 Whisper can be launched from unprepared sites carrying field-changeable payloads and hover silently for more than 24 hours when tethered 100ft above ground.
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