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House Panel Recommends Bill Requiring Analysis of New NII Equipment at Border

The House Homeland Security Committee passed the Contraband Awareness Technology Catches Harmful (CATCH) Fentanyl Act on Sept. 25, sending the bill to the full House. It would require CBP to establish a pilot program to test at least five types…

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of non-intrusive inspection equipment for goods coming in all modes of conveyance across the land borders. At least one of those approaches must include machine learning or artificial intelligence. No more than three years after passage, the agency would have to report to Congress the effectiveness of the systems tested in finding illegal drugs, guns and other contraband, whether it would work to use the equipment to serve all the land ports of entry, how much it would cost to do so, and how much time would CBP officers need to run these screens.