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[Stinky The Clown]

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=87775219

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.

[GainesT1958]

1. It looks like a cross between...

A cell phone tower and a runway light tower!:eyes:

If Boeing REALLY wanted to save money and use spare parts, why didn't they take some fuscelages from old 737s and stick 'em in the ground nose-up, using their nose cones as the concealed camera housing?

That way they would at least have the would-be illegal border-crossers stop to do a double-take wondering what they were!:eyes:

Never before has the United States Government paid defense contractors so much for so little--not even in the '80s.

B-)

[TomInTib]

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.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Was this a no bid contract?

Cuz it sure as shit smells like one.

[TomInTib]

4. It was a gift...

Man, I want to send you something I laid down tonight.

Tom

[madokie]

5. The easiest way to solve the problem in my estimation is to make it illegal to hire illegals

oh 'bout forgot it is illegal already. If our government would quit fucking other countries over at every bend in the road then maybe fewer people would like to harm us. Its actually pretty simple when its put in perspective, but our country doesn't do things in perspective, it does things in spite. Americans want it all and the hell with anyone who tries to stop them. I hope for one day we, our government, wakes up and start acting like good neighbors and friends.