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  The Border Budget Battle

  Posted by Paul McLeary 4:56 PM on Feb 14, 2012

  Lost amid the buzz over the Pentagon’s budget request yesterday was the request of another pretty important national security organization: the sprawling, 22 agency behemoth ... Read More >>

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  Border Patrol Eyeing Surplus Military Gear

  Posted by Paul McLeary 8:14 PM on Nov 15, 2011

  With the American military presence in Iraq ending next month (!), and the return of over two million pieces of military gear from that conflict, the Department of Homeland Securit... Read More >>

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  More Money, More Cameras, Along Arizona/Mexican Border

  Posted by Paul McLeary 2:18 PM on Mar 14, 2011

  Now that the Department of Homeland Security has capped its $800 million SBInet border surveillance program at only 53 mi. of Arizona borderland, the government has been scrambling... Read More >>

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  Border Watchers Looking for New Ideas

  Posted by Paul McLeary 4:22 PM on Jan 31, 2011

  The Department of Homeland Security is moving fast to get surveillance technologies down to the southwest border now that the controversial SBInet “virtual fence” has b... Read More >>

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  More Troubles for SBInet

  Posted by Paul McLeary 6:45 PM on Oct 19, 2010

  The Coast Guard had Deepwater. The Army had Future Combat Systems. The Navy is struggling through the Littoral Combat Ship acquisition process. And now the Department of Homeland S... Read More >>

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  DHS versus Stuxnet -- Iran Is Not Alone In Its Cyber Pain

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 6:09 PM on Oct 08, 2010

  The Iranian government says that the Stuxnet cyberworm was implanted by the U.S. and it is proof that Washington is trying to derail its peaceful nuclear program even though the nu... Read More >>

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  Bombs, Swiss Cheese and Fools

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 5:34 AM on Dec 29, 2009

  Back in 1998 I interviewed Harry Stonecipher when he was president of Boeing (and Phil Condit was CEO) just after the company's manufacturing system had fallen apart. I asked him w... Read More >>

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  New Tech Along the Border

  Posted by Paul McLeary 11:47 AM on Mar 11, 2009

  Things have gotten pretty bad in Mexico. How bad? Try 1,000 drug-cartel related murders in January, following 6,000 such murders in all of 2008—which itself was double the pr... Read More >>

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  Homeland Security USA

  Posted by Bettina Chavanne 8:01 PM on Dec 09, 2008

  True tales of Homeland SecurityI am a reality TV addict, I freely admit it. Despite the fact that reality TV seems to traffic in public humiliation with near-epic glee, I can't sto... Read More >>

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