Boeing's SBInet contract gets the axe Napolitan
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Posted On: 01/09/2019 2:34:14 PM
Boeing's SBInet contract gets the axe
Napolitano says virtual fence can't meet objectives, plans mix of new technologies
Boeing Co.’s multibillion-dollar “SBInet” contract for an electronic border surveillance system along the United State-Mexico border is no more.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that her department is canceling the remainder of the troubled effort and adopting a mix of new technologies that will be tailored to the terrain and needs of each border region.
The announcement came at the completion of a year-long reassessment of the controversial Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet) program. Development and construction of a 28-mile prototype and a 53-mile permanent segment of SBInet in Arizona has cost about $1 billion.
Initial plans developed in 2005 and 2006 called for SBInet to extend across the entire U.S.-Mexico land border. Boeing was to build a system of cameras, radars and sensors strung on towers and linked to command and control centers.
(THE PROBLEM IS THAT BY THE TIME BP GOT TO THE LOCATION OF THE TOWER ALERT, THE ILLEGAL WAS LONG GONE! TOWERS AND DRONES DO NOT KEEP ILLEGALS AND SMUGGLERS OUT!)
https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/201...order.aspx
Napolitano says virtual fence can't meet objectives, plans mix of new technologies
Boeing Co.’s multibillion-dollar “SBInet” contract for an electronic border surveillance system along the United State-Mexico border is no more.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that her department is canceling the remainder of the troubled effort and adopting a mix of new technologies that will be tailored to the terrain and needs of each border region.
The announcement came at the completion of a year-long reassessment of the controversial Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet) program. Development and construction of a 28-mile prototype and a 53-mile permanent segment of SBInet in Arizona has cost about $1 billion.
Initial plans developed in 2005 and 2006 called for SBInet to extend across the entire U.S.-Mexico land border. Boeing was to build a system of cameras, radars and sensors strung on towers and linked to command and control centers.
(THE PROBLEM IS THAT BY THE TIME BP GOT TO THE LOCATION OF THE TOWER ALERT, THE ILLEGAL WAS LONG GONE! TOWERS AND DRONES DO NOT KEEP ILLEGALS AND SMUGGLERS OUT!)
https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/201...order.aspx
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