CBP - Border Enforcement Coordination Network (BECN)

The primary benefit of BECN is the facilitation and support of border enforcement mission essential tasks for all 22,500 discrete future BECN and legacy BPES users, mainly USBP agents. Without this investment, USBP would be unable to perform critical functions to detect, identify and resolve illegal border activity, limiting the effectiveness of their mission and endangering national security. BECN conducted an ROI analyzing the BECN lifecycle cost estimates against projected cost savings attributed to modernizing legacy BPES core enforcement capabilities due to the projected year over year cost increases legacy BPES systems are incurring. The results of the analysis project a recoupment of BECN investment costs by FY2034 and an average annual O&S cost savings benefit of $23.2M (average 43.4%) post FOC between FY2026 and FY2039 with a total cumulative cost avoidance of $324.2M. The BECN modernization from legacy BPES investment will achieve these cost savings and avoidance by improving ease of use, integration, and redundancy while avoiding the rising maintenance costs associated with legacy BPES. Additionally, some BECN capabilities will improve agent efficiency by 100% - meaning these tasks would be virtually impossible otherwise. USBP, CBP, other DHS Components (e.g., ICE, CIS, USCG, FEMA, S&T), other federal agencies (e.g., DOJ, DOS and DOD), state, local and foreign governments will benefit from BECN by having access to an integrated portfolio of shared information that heighten situational awareness and risk-based decision-making. These agencies achieve cost avoidance by not having to build their own systems. BECN provides workforce staffing information and operational metrics linked with DHS, the FBI and ICE. Improvements in operating availability, reliability, and system readiness will be delivered and tracked in performance metrics 142536, 142537, and 142538. This integration will improve decision-making and supports the rapid deployment of USBP resources while reducing operational costs. BECN statistical reporting for CBP and multiple DHS components (e.g., FEMA, ICE, CIS) will be used for strategic and tactical decision-making. This enables USBP to provide reliable statistical information in response to White House, Congress, OMB, GAO, IG, IA and other federal agency requirements, including those of the Departments of State and Justice as well as state and foreign governments. BECN will also leverage information and technologies developed or used by other agencies. The BPES legacy system, e3 leverages the ICE Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) by pulling related data that reduces data re-entry and expedites data sharing. e3's Biometrics leverages FBI's IAFIS, US-VISIT's IDENT and DoD's ABIS biometrics search/enroll interfaces/repositories. This investment in the BECN modernization is critical to maintaining the robust support provided to USBP for mission critical functions and high performing services to CBP and USBP stakeholders. Customer surveys done on the need for BECN modernization and legacy BPES investment have underscored the importance of the BECN investment as customer users have cited issues with the legacy systems performance, speed, and integration along with declining user satisfaction ratings and need for improvement through modernization which aimed to be improved post FOC and tracked in metric 142689.

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