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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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What the hell it's only money!
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Clyde
10:35 AM
Feds Scrap $20 Million 'Virtual Fence' In Ariz.
The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.
The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence built by The Boeing Co. The fence consists of nine electronic surveillance towers along a 28-mile section of border southwest of Tucson.
Boeing is to replace the so-called Project 28 prototype with a series of towers equipped with communications systems, new cameras and new radar capability, officials said.
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.
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This really isn't all that surprising. Our tax dollars pay for a lot of programs involving technology that doesn't actually work. The missile defense shield is the most prominent. We also spent a ton of money on new computer programs for the "intelligence" community that didn't work. They had to start all over and request an all new budget for it.
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The mistake Boeing made was they only charged 1 million. But now they can fix the problem for 700 million more. Can't someone give this guy a blow job and have him impeached?
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