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Designed and developed in collaboration with specialists at Fort Belvoir through funding from the U.S. Army’s Night Vision Lab and is currently on duty with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on the U.S.-Mexico border. Cerberus was conceived from its inception as a platform for extending situational awareness and response capabilities beyond the facility perimeters.

Cerberus can support a variety of camera, radar and sensor systems to extend the eyes and ears of field and base forces. Through command and control software, radar and thermal/day cameras work cooperatively to identify potential threats and targets for more definitive identifications. All sensor outputs, detections and identifications are then displayed on an integrated command and control console to achieve the desired level of force multiplication. Two-way wireless links dispatch sensor commands and coordinate data flow among the towers and a central command center, providing complete multi-sensor perimeter coverage. Motion detected by ground surveillance radar, for example, will immediately trigger a pop-up window at the command and control center, and train a slew-to-cue camera on the target to provide additional assessment of the target.

Cerberus represents a substantial advance in force protection capabilities and flexibility. With its open architecture and support of multiple and diverse sensor and monitoring devices with effective interfacing with command posts, Cerberus provides the transportability and sustainability that is key to surveillance and security scenarios as can be seen by its deployment with the U.S. Border Patrol.

In addition to the Cerberus units, eight Sky Watch towers are helping to secure a critical 10-mile stretch of the U.S. border at Nogales. Representing one among a hundred similar border surveillance deployments of ICx Tactical Platforms towers, the Nogales units include visible light and infrared cameras wirelessly networked to a command center.