GA-ASI CBP Deploys 6th UAS to Enhance Border Security

(Washington, February 13, 2009) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced today the delivery of its sixth Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The remotely piloted Predator B allows CBP personnel to safely conduct missions in areas that are difficult to access or otherwise considered too high risk for manned aircraft or CBP personnel on the ground.

The new aircraft will operate from Libby Army Airfield in Sierra Vista, Ariz., in support of border security operations along the southwest border of the United States.

Built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., CBP Air and Marine's new Predator B unmanned aircraft will support CBP's primary mission of securing the border and preventing acts of terrorism by providing a long-duration reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, tracking and acquisition capability to augment crewed law enforcement aircraft and watercraft as well as ground interdiction agents.

Source : General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.