The provision in question calls for $6 billion to be spent on border security technologies, including a virtual wall of surveillance towers that can detect people crossing the border. The bill says the payday can only be awarded to a company whose products have been “tested and accepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deliver autonomous capabilities—where autonomous is described as “a system designed to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, or other...

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