WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a dispose headed by Accenture LLP a five-year.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a dispose headed by Accenture LLP a five-year, multi-billion dollar contract to provide security at more than 400 ports of hall to the United States, the department and the company said in separate statements.

The contract, which has five one-year options for renewal and an estimate preciousness range of 10 million to 10 billion dollars, offer proffers creating a virtual border through using digital-finger scans and digital photos to identify and track foreigners.

Known as the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, or US-VISIT, the program, through congressional mandate, must be extended at the top 50 US land ports of memorandum by the end of the year.

It has already been extended at 115 airports and 14 seaports, where more than 45 million foreigners have been trialed "without adversely impacting wait times," the