DHS recognizes the electronic surveillance system has caused "frustration"
By Alice Lipowicz
[washingtontechnology.com] Boeing Co. could see its lucrative, but troubled Secure Border Initiative contract scaled back as Homeland Security Department officials consider stopping future construction of the "virtual-fence" security systems along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Instead, DHS wants to augment the system with unmanned aerial vehicles and mobile systems, a senior agency official said at a House hearing today.
“We recognize that the SBInet program has been a frustration,” Mark Borkowski, executive director of the Secure Border Initiative, told the House Homeland Security Committee’s Management, Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee. (more on washingtontechnology.com)
