The Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, US Border Patrol has a requirement for an advanced technologies to enhance USBP’s Modular Mobile Surveillance System (M2S2).

The United States Border Patrol (USBP) is a sub-component of CBP whose mission is to prevent the illegal flow of people and contraband into the U. S. via air, land, and sea. The USBP’s primary mission is to conduct law enforcement activities along the U. S. border and between the official U. S. ports of entry. As the nation’s single, unified border agency, USBP’s mission is vitally important for the protection of the American people and the national economy. USBP represents the first line of defense of America’s borders. One of USBP’s strategic objectives is to establish and maintain effective control of air, land, and maritime borders with the appropriate mix of infrastructure, technology, and personnel. An integral component to this situational awareness is the use of M2S2, which provide actionable information to the Border Patrol on the location and movement of potential Items of Interest (IoIs), that allow for tailoring the modular system for operational mission along the border based on threat, topography, terrain, weather and operational considerations.

Domain Awareness: Land Surveillance (DALS) is defined as the ability to detect, identify, classify, and track land threats (i.e., dismounted persons and land conveyances) using a variety of capabilities to include fixed/re-locatable, airborne, agent portable, and mobile. M2S2 support Domain Awareness: Land Surveillance capability gaps, specifically, mobile surveillance. Mobile surveillance capabilities shall be self-propelled, or have the capacity to move themselves, whether during operation of their primary mission, or as a capability to relocate between operations.

As a component of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), USBP derives the following mission objectives from “CBP Vision and Strategy 2020.” Primarily, preventing terrorists/terrorist weapons, transnational crime (e.g., narcotics, weapons), and illegal immigrants from entering the United States between the land ports of entry (POEs) and secondly, disrupting and degrading Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) by targeting enforcement efforts against the highest priority threats and smuggling and crimes associated with smuggling.

The DALS capability, identified in Figure 1, consists of the ability to detect, identify, classify, and track adversary individuals and groups. When these four surveillance-supporting Mission Essential Tasks (METs) are combined with additional METs, an operational response chain is enabled.

The Contractor shall be solely responsible for providing the management, personnel, facilities, equipment, and material required to:

• Manufacture, ship and deliver M2S2 units
  • The M2S2 unit shall consist of a truck mounted telescoping mast with EO (Electro Optical) day cameras, IR (Infrared) night cameras and radars with the following characteristics:
    • Shall be a mobile detection, identification, classification, and tracking system for day and night operations.
    • Shall be capable of performing mission critical functions in support of USBP operations, which are on-going 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.
    • Shall be responsible for monitoring its Area of Coverage (AoC) that is comprised of the instantaneous field of view (FoV) and the total field of regard (FoR).
    • Shall have the ability to elevate the imaging devices to maximize the AoC and overcome developed (e.g. border wall, buildings and other structures) and natural (e.g. terrain features, vegetation, and tree lines) obstacles within and along USBP’s varied operating areas.
    • Shall provide the M2S2 operator with still, video and radar data that enable the detection, identification, classification, and tracking of an IoI in rugged, remote, rural, urban, riverine, and coastal environments throughout a range from 1 mile to 7 miles.
    • Shall provide IoI illumination to support covert vectoring of USBP Agents to the immediate vicinity of the IoI for interdiction and event resolution.
    • Shall not obstruct or disrupt the driver while in transport.
    • Shall not compromise agent safety during normal operation of the truck or mast system.
    • Shall allow the M2S2 operator to be seated comfortably in the driver’s seat while controlling the surveillance system (day/night cameras and radar, or combination of cameras and radar) and Land Mobile Radio (LMR), additional radio(s) and Team Awareness Kit (TAK) easily for extended periods of time.  The LMR, additional radio(s) and TAK will be provided as Government Furnished Equipment and may be installed by the OEM or at a Government authorized installation facility. See Section 5.1.4 below.
    • Shall be capable of being rapidly deployed from one location to another.
    • Shall be capable of being deployed in myriad environmental and climatic conditions including day/night, dense, thick foliage, extreme temperature ranges (-18o F to 124o F), high salt air conditions, dirt and fine dust conditions, humidity (> 90%), rain, fog, snow, icing, high winds (up to 60 mph), sand storms, and electrical storms.
    • Shall have scalable, adaptable, and flexible sensor configurations to optimize surveillance within the many operating areas/ranges and environmental/climatic conditions encountered in 19 diverse USBP Sectors (Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, El Paso, El Centro, New Orleans, San Diego, Tucson, Yuma, Swanton, Spokane, Detroit, Buffalo, Blaine, Grand Forks, Havre, Miami, Houlton, and Ramey).
    • Shall report mission critical failures to the operator and, if possible, be able to isolate failures to Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) to minimize downtime
  • The M2S2 System truck shall be a Ford F250 Super or Crew Cab 4×4 vehicle or equivalent Chevrolet 4×4 truck (vehicle types currently supported by CBP Fleet).  The truck shall be new and unused (year 2020 or beyond) and shall be equipped with the following F250 equivalent features:
    • AT – All Terrain Tire Tread
    • CNS – Consignee Delivery (No Dealer Prep)
    • DDRL – Deactivate Daytime Running Lights
    • FOG – Fog Lights
    • IE1 – V8 Gas Engine
    • L6CR – ≤ 7 Feet Bed Length
    • ORSP – Off Road Suspension Package (Heavy Duty)
    • RD – Rear Window Electric Defroster
    • RKE – Remote Keyless Entry
    • RM6 – Mirrors – Exterior Rearview Heated and Remote Controlled
    • RS – Reclining Bucket/Captain’s Chairs
    • SRO – OEM Reverse Obstacle Sensor or Camera
    • Front Replacement Bumper*
    • Full Skid Pan**
    • Dual Alternators
    • Fire Extinguisher
    • Long Gun Mount (Rifle (M-4 with optics) or Shotgun)
• Provide M2S2 specific operator, maintenance and train-the-trainer training
  • The M2S2 System telescoping mast shall be electro/mechanical or pneumatic, allowing the operator to elevate the mast from a completely stored to a fully elevated height and return to fully stored by the M2S2 operator, in 15 minutes or less, while remaining seated inside the cab.  The mast and configured sensors shall store completely within the inner dimensions of the truck bed and shall not extend above the height of the cab more than two (2) inches.  The mast and configured sensors shall be mounted in the truck bed in a manner that will allow for rapid emplacement and removal.
• Provide warranty service following Government acceptance of M2S2 units
  • The driver/operator shall be able to pull a sensor system control station into a position that will allow the driver/operator to easily control and use the sensor system for an extended period.  This shall include the ability to electronically raise and lower the mast from the fully stored to the fully extended range of the mast with sensors.  It shall also include the ability to manage the performance of the day/night cameras and radar using a ruggedized laptop/computer, format the data from the sensors in accordance with U.S. Border Patrol Sensor System Cursor-on-Target (CoT) Implementation Guide (Attachment 9), and use the integrated GFE LMR and other GFE equipment including Radios and TAK.  The ruggedized laptop/computer shall have the ability to store high quality video and radar data with a minimum of four (4) terabytes in a data storage medium which shall have a minimum of 3 levels of user access and which can be easily removed and replaced for LES purposes.