CBP uses intelligence & a risk-based strategy to screen information on 100% of cargo before it is loaded onto vessels destined for the United States. Cargo that is identified as high risk is inspected, either at the foreign port or upon arrival into U.S.
"First of all, this is a private transaction. But it - according to law, the government is required to make sure this transaction does not, in any way, jeopardize the security of the country." President George W. Bush
The Expansion Pack is completely integrated with CoBRA 4.0, so users continue to get the complete incident-report logging, communication, annotation, and data-sharing capabilities that they have come to expect and rely on for incident management.
"This tragedy emphasized how critical it is that we ensure [that] our planning and response capabilities perform with seamless integrity and efficiency in any type of disaster situation - even one of cataclysmic nature." Secretary Chertoff
"The contract was established to provide the Air Force (at all levels), Department of Defense, and other federal agencies a primary source of networking equipment/product supply and related services..."
"... outline where I think we want to go in the first step of our process of reengineering DHS and FEMA, to make ourselves better partners with you in protecting this country and responding when we have natural disasters."
Michael Chertoff, DHS Secretary