Husb2Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-28-08 07:10 PM
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Border Fence Project Riddled with Problems
All Things Considered, February 28, 2008 · A pilot project to test a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border has been riddled with technical problems. Completion of the project's first phase will be delayed by at least three years. The virtual fence pilot project covers 28 miles of the border, south of Tucson.
Boeing got nearly $21 million to design the pilot, called "Project 28". The company used off-the-shelf components that didn't work as planned to detect illegal aliens coming into this country.
The virtual border is a series of towers that have sensors on them — radar sensors and optical sensors — that detect movement across the border. It was planned to allow the border control command post to focus in on the movements without a physical barrier in place.
Richard M. Stana, director of homeland security and justice issues for the Government Accountability Office, tells Melissa Block that the government hopes to learn from the mistakes that have plagued the program.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87...
Pardon the headline. I was trying to be clever like
Boeing built this turkey roost. DHS says its all okay cuz it was a pilot program
Everyone with a a brain sez its a bust cuz it just plain don't work.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-28-08 07:34 PM
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2. They knew from the start that it would not work.
They knew the components were incompatible.
So they got $21million to string a bunch of turds together in order to try to find a way to make them maybe not smell so bad.
This was a sham from Day One and they knew it.
linkage:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2938835
