Operation Intercept history

Operation Intercept grew out of MRC Investigations, Inc. which, since 2001, has conducted more cargo crime investigations in North America than any other company. For nearly four years, MRC has been seeking tracking technology that could prove viable in this most complex logistics environment. Finally, there are some answers:

Tracking technology has grown apace with the computer age. While it has not quite yet reached the James Bond level with micro-chips and secret watches, some exciting approaches are now operational or soon to be. Like any other cutting edge technology, tracking is improving and expanding its capacities almost daily, and no device, no matter how good it looks today, will match what will be available in a year or two.

Given this environment, it makes little sense to settle for any one tracking device. If we become technocentric, we limit our capacities to what one device can be made to do. Instead, if we look at the whole spectrum of tracking technology, and spread it out before us, we can make intelligent decisions for ourselves and our companies that are more likely to work into the future. Further, if we buy into a system that can support many technologies, we reduce the potential for obsolescence – if the tracking units we have need to be replaced with newer and better units, we can stay with the same system and make the change to new units gradually, rather than being forced to do it all at once.

It is also critical to recognize that simply having tracking devices is not enough. We need to be able manage them, maintain them, locate and track them, and intercept them, and that takes a widespread system of responders.