U.S. and Canada join forces to test defense initiatives -- GCN

U.S. and Canada join forces to test defense initiatives

By Wilson P. Dizard III
Dec 13, 2002

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The Homeland Security Office and the Canadian government jointly announced progress on the Smart Border Action Plan, which includes several IT projects.

Some of the plan's 30 points cover:

Developing joint standards for interoperable biometric identification cards

Sharing information on asylum seekers

Sharing data via the Advanced Passenger Information and Passenger Name Records program

Planning parallel and compatible immigration databases, including a study by U.S. agencies of Canadian intelligence-gathering software

Harmonized commercial processing for low-risk shipments

Studying joint border-crossing facilities

Teaming the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force with the new Canadian Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams

Developing a system for fingerprint exchange between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the FBI

Sharing information on terrorist asset freezing.

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