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Wall Street Journal -- December 6
Concerns
Raised on Border Fence
Lawmaker Seeks To Delay Handover Of the Boeing
System
The
House Homeland Security Committee's chairman is pressuring federal
officials to delay acceptance of Boeing Co.'s high-tech border-surveillance
system because he isn't confident it will work as promised on
the Arizona-Mexico border.
In a letter sent late yesterday to Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D.,
Miss.) cited continuing concerns by the committee that problems
with the virtual-fence system known as Project 28 aren't fixed.
The committee also is concerned that the effort doesn't give
agents the technological advantages Boeing has promised.
Further delay of a project already almost
six months behind could set back the credibility of both the
effort and of Boeing. It also signals a determination by lawmakers
to keep a sharp eye on how Homeland Security buys from the defense
industry. |
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