Friday, June 17, 2005

$257 million for what?

Have you heard about this one? A $250 million contract (with a $2 million price that skyrocketed to $257 million) to place remote video surveillance cameras along parts of the United States' northern and southern borders was awarded in 1999 to a company called International Microwave Corp. which was later acquired by L-3 Communications Government Services Inc.

GSA reported to the House that the program wasn't run correctly.

U.S. border surveillance system became fiasco
Thu Jun 16, 2005
By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON (Reuters)

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