Posted on 10/21/2010 5:50:30 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
The troubled four-year-old federal program to install a virtual fence along the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico is behind schedule and overbudget -- and the Department of Homeland Security is at least partly to blame, for not adequately policing contractor Boeing, a new watchdog report concludes.
The department's Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet, is intended to utilize cameras, ground sensors and radars designed to let a small number of dispatchers watch the border on computer monitors, zoom in with cameras to see people crossing and decide whether to send Border Patrol agents to the scene.
But the Government Accountability Office found that while DHS has put in place some oversight controls for reviewing Boeing's work, it "has not effectively implemented other controls" which have led to "costly rework and contributing to SBInet's well-chronicled history of not delivering promised capabilities and benefits on time and within budget."
In other words, Homeland Security did a poor job of keeping Boeing on task.
GAO also criticized Boeing for providing project information to DHS that was "replete with unexplained anomalies, thus rendering the data unfit for effective contractor management and oversight."
This year, Homeland Security froze funds for expanding the fence after a string of technical glitches and delays. Originally, the virtual fence was supposed to be completed by 2011; that date has slipped to 2014.
The project has cost the government $672 million.
Matthew Chandler, a spokesman for Homeland Security, said in a written statement that Customs and Border Patrol agreed with the recommendations.
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Fire Janet!
Virtual ping!
A virtual fence, is virtual insanity. How about a physical fence, with armed border patrol backing it up.
But,we all know there will never be any real stoppage of the future voters coming into our once great nation illegaly. The globalists have an agenda of turning us into another 3rd world nation, and we are almost there.
A virtual fence, is virtual insanity. How about a physical fence, with armed border patrol backing it up.
But,we all know there will never be any real stoppage of the future voters coming into our once great nation illegaly. The globalists have an agenda of turning us into another 3rd world nation, and we are almost there.
A virtual fence, is virtual insanity. How about a physical fence, with armed border patrol backing it up.
But,we all know there will never be any real stoppage of the future voters coming into our once great nation illegaly. The globalists have an agenda of turning us into another 3rd world nation, and we are almost there.
sorry about the multiple post?????????
Lets see here...South Koreans sleep unmolested by the North Koreans..courtesy of the US taxpayer. Just exactly why is it a Texan hasn’t the same privilege?
My understanding is that SBInet has been pretty much cancelled and the remaining funds are being used to capture the portions of SBInet that work and invest in local detection technology projects.
Liberals are just damn scary. Conservatives better get a handle on America or we will become a footnote in future history books.
Excellent post...bears repeating. Post it again!
Ping!
Project could have been completed in 6 months.
BRING BACK DUNCAN HUNTER!
Nothing to see here. Move along!
Obama couldn’t find a “shovel ready” project and here was the biggest one anyone could think of sitting there waiting for funding!
The troubled four-year-old federal program to install a virtual fence along the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico is behind schedule and overbudget -- and the Department of Homeland Security is at least partly to blame, for not adequately policing contractor Boeing, a new watchdog report concludes.
They spent all the money on green and white Tahoes cruising up and down I-10 and I-20.
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