| | Trusted Borders, a
consortium of companies
led by Raytheon Systems’
UK arm, has won a £650m
($1.35bn) contract from
the British government
to develop a
computerised border
control system. The
system will collect and
analyse passenger and
crew data and track
arriving and departing
travellers, matching
their names against
police, customs and
immigration watch lists.
US-based Raytheon,
along with partners
Accenture, Detica and
Serco, beat a competing
consortium led by BT,
with partners Lockheed
Martin, LogicaCMG and
Hewlett-Packard, for the
e-Borders contract.
Home secretary Jacqui
Smith said the deal,
part of a £1.2bn overall
programme to improve
border security, would | |
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A pilot project done
in advance of e-Borders
has tracked over 35
million passengers,
resulting in the capture
of over 1,000 criminals
and allowing over 15,000
suspects to be checked
out, she said.
Raytheon is a member
of the US VISIT team,
which is led by
Accenture, and is
working on a similar
project for the US
government. The US VISIT
programme collects
biometric data, namely
fingerprints, to track
the entry of foreign
nationals into the
United States, but
e-Borders, at least for
now, will not be doing
so.
Under the programme,
Raytheon will be
responsible for systems
integration, travel
services and overall | |
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| | project management.
Accenture will train
end users of the system
and help to measure the
overall business
benefits of the
e-Borders programme.
Detica is responsible
for intelligence and
analytics services. The
company expects to enter
into a formal
sub-contract for this
programme with Raytheon
shortly. The contract is
expected to generate
over £50m of revenue for
Detica, representing the
largest single contract
won by the firm to date.
Serco will be in
charge of infrastructure
and service management.
It already provides the
Mycroft intelligence
management system to the
UK Borders and
Immigration Agency.
Capgemini will
develop the system’s
business architecture | |
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| | including the design of
business processes,
organisation structure
and primary data flows.
QinetiQ is
responsible for security
accreditation and human
factors. The company has
developed and runs
Borderwatch, which
detects stowaways in
vehicles, for the UK
Department for
Transport.
Steria is responsible
for the development of
the Agency interfaces.
It is a major European
IT services provider
with extensive
experience of European
border management
systems, through
programmes such as the
Schengen Information
System and Visa
Information System.
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