Sec. 2302. Deploying smart technology at the southern border
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The Secretary is authorized to develop and implement a strategy to manage and secure the southern border of the United States by deploying smart technology— to enhance situational awareness along the border; and to counter transnational criminal networks. The smart technology strategy described in subsection
(a)shall include— a comprehensive assessment of the physical barriers, levees, technologies, tools, and other devices that are currently in use along the southern border of the United States; the deployment of technology between ports of entry that focuses on flexible solutions that can expand the ability to detect illicit activity, evaluate the effectiveness of border security operations, and be easily relocated, broken out by U.S. Border Patrol sector; the specific steps that may be taken in each U.S. Border Patrol sector during the next 5 years to identify technology systems and tools that can help provide situational awareness of the southern border; an explanation for why each technology, tool, or other device was recommended to achieve and maintain situational awareness of the southern border, including— the methodology used to determine which type of technology, tool, or other device was recommended; a specific description of how each technology will contribute to the goal of evaluating the performance and identifying the effectiveness rate of U.S. Border Patrol agents and operations; and a privacy evaluation of each technology, tool, or other device that examines their potential impact on border communities; cost-effectiveness calculations for each technology, tool, or other device that will be deployed, including an analysis of the cost per mile of border surveillance; a cost justification for each instance a more expensive technology, tool, or other device is recommended over a less expensive option in a given U.S. Border Patrol sector; and performance measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of each technology deployed and of U.S. Border Patrol operations in each sector. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to implement this section.