Unisys to Support U.S. Customs with RFID
16 January, 2008
category: Government, RFID
Unisys Corp. has won a task order worth as much as $62.2 million over five years from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to deploy readers and other technologies to support the use of RFID tags on new identification cards at the U.S. borders, Washington Technology reports.
Unisys of Blue Bell, Pa., will install technology upgrades to enable border patrol agents at the 39 largest land border ports of entry to read new RFID cards as well as to read license plates, the agency said in a news release. The new identification cards include the State Department’s upcoming passport card under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, as well as for a hybrid driver’s license and border card to be produced by Washington State and possibly other states and Canadian provinces.