I guess this is how Boeing made big profits last quarter, huh?
When you gonna get tired of eating shit while getting reamed, America?
"Virtual border fence in Ariz. a failure"
"by Arthur H. Rotstein, Associated Press | April 24, 2008
TUCSON - The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system fails to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.
The move comes just two months after Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security, announced his approval of the fence built by The
Boeing will replace the so-called Project 28 prototype with a new series of towers equipped with communications systems, new cameras, and new radar capability, officials said.
Oh, so how much is Boeing going to be paid to do that?
Less than a week after Chertoff accepted Project 28 on Feb. 22, the Government Accountability Office told Congress it "did not fully meet user needs and the project's design will not be used as the basis for future" developments.
A glaring shortcoming of the project was the time lag between the electronic detection of movement along the border and the transmission of a camera image to agents patrolling the area, the GAO reported.
WTF?!
Kelly Good, deputy director of the Secure Border Initiative program office in Washington, said that although the fence continues to operate, it has not come close to meeting the Border Patrol's goals - "probably not to the level that Border Patrol agents on the ground thought that they were going to get. So," she added, "it didn't meet their expectations."
Like all war contractor work!! How's that shit taste, America?
Get that foreclosure notice yet?
How's that gas pump feel up your ass?
At least shit is cheaper than food, huh?
EAT UP then!!!!
The Border Patrol had little input in designing the prototype but will have more say in the final version, officials said.
One wonders why they didn't have much input from the start?
Or does one ($$$)?
Agents began using the virtual fence last December, and the towers have resulted in more than 3,000 apprehensions since, said Greg Giddens, executive director of the Secure Border Initiative program office in Washington.
But that is a fraction of the several hundred illegal immigrants believed to cross the border daily southwest of Tucson.
The virtual fence is part of a national plan to use physical barriers and high-tech detection capabilities to secure the Mexican border and eventually the Canadian boundary.
Part of constructing a PRISON PLANET, too!!!!
Boeing was awarded an $860 million contract to provide the technology, physical fences, and vehicle barriers.
"Boeing has delivered a system that the Border Patrol currently is operating 24 hours a day," Boeing spokeswoman Deborah Bosick said.
Project 28 was not intended to be the final, state-of-the-art system for catching illegal immigrants, Giddens said. "I think some people understood that and some didn't. We didn't communicate that well."WTF?!?!
So this system WASN'T INTENDED to work from the START?
America, when are you going to WAKE UP to the RIP-OFF?!?!
