Team 13: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Analysis Support: Tunnel Detection System
Author
Ugarte, Manuel A.
Anderson, Thomas S.
Huynh, Thomas
Langford, Gary
Nannini, Chris
McMurtrie, Thomas
Wolberg, Sarah
Brown, Brittlea
Date
2010-03Metadata
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Since 1990, more than 116 cross-border subterranean tunnels
have been discovered along the continental US borders, the
vast majority between US and Mexico. Tunnels present a
low probability, high threat scenario to the United States and
are a known means of illicit transportation of drugs,
weapons, money and people across the US border. The
perpetrators engaged in illicit trafficking are intelligent,
tenacious, technologically innovative and they relentlessly
seek to continue to expand their profitable enterprise. In
today’s world, confronted with the realities of terrorism and
terroristic objectives, one must also acknowledge that
tunnels pose a looming threat to national security. Tunnels
are also a persistent military threat. A 2007 operational needs
statement (ONS) from US Central Command (CENTCOM)
noted that detainees were attempting to tunnel as a means to
escape from the internment facilities.
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from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 8 Workshop 20