United States Cbp Tender

The US Customs and Border Protection CBP agency seeks vendor to facilitate its plans to step up its use of biometrics and facial recognition technologies. The government agency has posted a new draft Request for Quote concerning its Passenger Systems Program Directorate PSPD with the Office of Information and Technology seeking to procure the full range of life cycle services for CBP PSPD and potentially other OIT directorates suite of Traveler Processing and Vetting Software TPVS applications and related specialized equipment.It is a modernization move of traveler processing systems of CBP. Commencement of the contract is expected in December scheduled to last till May 2025. It is for the migration from a focus on biographic data to a focus on biometric data with the agency asserting in its solicitation that a biometrics-based approach allows threats to be pushed-out further beyond our borders before travelers arrive to the U.S.Teaming up with private sector organizations including airports and airlines in certain cases the CBP has pioneered automated systems designed to match passengers against flight manifest records.This focus will continue with the CBPs solicitation asserting that integration of facial recognition technologies is intended throughout all passenger applications. This includes replacing Global Entry program kiosks with new solutions based on facial recognition among other measures.Also the CBPs draft solicitation describes a plan of shifting traveler processing technology to cloud-based technologies aiming to have all such applications in the cloud by 2024.