Posted on 01/14/2011 10:53:21 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's administration plans to pull the plug on the troubled "virtual fence" project that was meant to better guard stretches of the U.S. border with Mexico, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.
The project, being run by Boeing Co, has cost about $1 billion so far and was meant to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to detect smugglers trying to cross the porous border.
"The SBInet program has been a grave and expensive disappointment since its inception," Representative Bennie Thompson, the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement which noted that the Department of Homeland Security was ending the project.
Thompson said that nearly $1 billion had been spent for only 53 miles of coverage in the project that started during the administration of former President George W. Bush.
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“The solution is too easy......”
Take your shovels and start digging.
Where can I get a job for virtual work?
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