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H10810

Headlines : Civil Liberties

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As envisioned by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, SBInet would marry industry expertise with the 42,000-employee Customs and Border Protection to create a wall of technology, manpower and infrastructure in the next six years. The initial cost is projected at $2.5 billion, but the price could be much higher.

...”We see it as an increasing market,” said John Douglass, president and chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association. “Many of the technologies that make you a successful aerospace contractor would also make you a successful homeland-security contractor.”

...Since the DHS was created in 2003 from the consolidation of 22 agencies and departments, procurement spending at the department rose from $3.5 billion to $10 billion in 2005, according to the House Committee on Government Reform.

[Posted By Szamko]

By Dave Montgomery
Republished from Seattle Times

Big players from the military-industrial complex are all looking for a piece of the bloated Homeland Security pie.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is expected next month to choose an industry consortium to erect a high-tech security shield along the U.S. borders, launching one of the federal government’s most ambitious public-works projects in years.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calls the proposed Secure Border Initiative Net (SBInet) the “most comprehensive effort in the nation’s history” to gain control of more than 6,000 miles of border with Mexico and Canada, and 2,000 miles of coastline.

SBInet is a centerpiece of President Bush’s efforts to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border at a time Congress is locked in a struggle to revise the nation’s immigration laws. Administration officials say they intend to proceed with the security net regardless of the outcome of the debate over immigration legislation.

The multibillion-dollar undertaking has ignited a contract battle among industry teams headed by four leading defense companies — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon — and Ericsson, the Swedish-based telecommunications giant with U.S. headquarters in Plano, Texas.

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Posted by Szamko
Just tries to tell the truth.

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Billions at stake in border contract

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