No funds for surveillance towers not tested and accepted as autonomous
What the document says“None of the funds made available under subsection (a) may be used for the procurement or deployment of surveillance towers along the southwest border and northern border that have not been tested and accepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deliver autonomous capabilities.”
Subsection (b) bars the money in subsection (a) from being used to buy or deploy surveillance towers along the southwest border and the northern border unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection has tested and accepted them to deliver autonomous capabilities. The word autonomous is defined in subsection (c).
What the document actually says“None of the funds made available under subsection (a) may be used for the procurement or deployment of surveillance towers along the southwest border and northern border that have not been tested and accepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deliver autonomous capabilities.”
This money may not buy or set up watch towers on two of the borders. That bar lifts once the border force has tested a tower and taken it. The test is whether it can work on its own.
A watch tower stands and looks out over the land. The next part of this law says what working on its own means. Towers that have not passed the test cannot be bought with this money.
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