Protecting Our Borders: Leveraging Technological Assets and Local Knowledge in Remote Communities

Along its northern and southern borders—some areas of which are vast, often forbidding wilderness—the United States confronts threats from foreign adversaries, their proxies, and transnational criminal organizations. These groups increasingly employ sophisticated surveillance technology to enable human and drug trafficking and other activities. The United States needs to fight back with more advanced technological tools combined with knowledge of the terrain from tribal populations or other communities around the borderlands.

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