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Government Border Control · 9 min read

Operational Intelligence for Border Control: How AI on IBM Z Strengthens the Decisions That Protect a Nation

Border agencies face a structural and permanent challenge — more decisions, fewer people, higher stakes. The data to make better decisions already exists in the transaction systems agencies trust. The constraint has always been architectural: analytics ran somewhere else, on a different timeline, against a copy of the data. IBM Z's Telum processor changes that. For the first time, AI inference runs inside the transaction itself — against the authoritative record, at the moment the decision is made, before the window closes.

20 May 2026 Border Control Customs

Government Border Control · 5 min read

Cargo Risk Targeting: When You Can Only Inspect 3 Percent, Which 3 Percent Matters

Physical inspection of all cargo arriving at a major port is operationally impossible. Inspection rates at most major ports run at 2 to 5 percent of total consignment volumes. The inspection yield rate — the proportion of inspected consignments that result in seizure or enforcement action — is the direct measure of how well the targeting model is working. Most agencies know their inspection rate. Fewer know their yield rate.

12 May 2026 Customs Cargo Risk Targeting

Industry Perspective · 8 min read

Customs & Trade AI: The Fraud Is in the Relationship, Not the Declaration

Customs agencies have built their AI strategies around the declaration — the individual shipment, the single import record, the per-transaction risk score. Most systematic customs fraud is invisible at that level. It lives in the trading relationship: the pattern that emerges when you examine 200 shipments from the same trader, not one. The agencies closing the revenue gap have understood this. Most have not.

30 Jun 2025 Government Customs