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Elbit to build surveillance towers on Arizona's border with Mexico

Israeli defense firm wins $145 million contract from US Department of Homeland Security.

Israeli defense firm Elbit has been awarded a $145 million contract by the US Department of Homeland Security to construct a series of surveillance towers on Arizona’s border with Mexico, the company announced on Sunday.

The project, called Integrated Fixed Tower Project (IFT), plans to see security posts equipped with radars and cameras that can detect human movement spring up along the American state’s southern frontier. The work is to be carried out by Elbit’s US subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America

Construction of the towers will take around a year, the company said. It declined to provide further details.

Last week, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, released a statement welcoming the contract.

“Arizonans have been waiting more than a decade for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to place the needed technology along our border to support the Border Patrol and fully secure our southern border,” he said.

“After many months of delay, the awarding of this contract to Elbit Systems of America is an important development toward fully securing the border in Arizona. If this technology is developed, integrated and fielded correctly, these Integrated Fixed Towers in southern Arizona, coupled with the tremendous work of the Border Patrol, will give our agents the ability to detect, evaluate and respond to all illegal entries crossing our border,” McCain stated. “The American people have long expected us to secure our borders.

The awarding of this contract is a step in the right direction.”

In May, the US-based Defense News website reported that “the IFT program is an ambitious attempt to install a series of surveillance towers along the US/Mexico border. The idea is to deploy a series of networked, integrated fixed towers equipped with radar and cameras that will ‘be able to detect a single, walking, average- sized adult’ at a range of 5 miles [8 km.] to 7.5 miles [12 km.] during day or night, while sending close to real-time video footage back to agents manning a command post.”

Defense News added that the IFT program comes after a previous border security program, called the Secure Border initiative (SBI), was canceled in 2011 despite the government spending $1 billion over the course of six years. That effort that saw just 85 km. of the 626-km.

border covered by the program, the report said.

In his statement last week, McCain vowed to “make certain we do not have another mistake like the SBInet project that set back for years the deployment of needed technology.”

http://www.jpost.com/International/Elbit-to-build-surveillance-towers-on-Arizonas-border-with-Mexico-344005
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Mar 10 2014, 10:38 PM

Israeli firm wins contract from US...



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See how we're trying to protect ghetto COONS like you? :D :D
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Wow!!! a waste of money considering that illegal crossing from Mexico into the U.S. is at an all time record low.

And I wonder why they couldn't give the contract to an American firm? Why Israel? :-/
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Mar 10 2014, 10:50 PM
Wow!!! a waste of money considering that illegal crossing from Mexico into the U.S. is at an all time record low.

And I wonder why they couldn't give the contract to an American firm? Why Israel? :-/
We'retrying to protect your sweet cakes too, dear. ;)
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Mar 10 2014, 10:50 PM
Wow!!! a waste of money considering that illegal crossing from Mexico into the U.S. is at an all time record low.

And I wonder why they couldn't give the contract to an American firm? Why Israel? :-/
Exactly wtg. Americans need the work and they give it to Israel!
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Mar 10 2014, 11:00 PM
Whozthatgurl
Mar 10 2014, 10:50 PM
Wow!!! a waste of money considering that illegal crossing from Mexico into the U.S. is at an all time record low.

And I wonder why they couldn't give the contract to an American firm? Why Israel? :-/
Exactly wtg. Americans need the work and they give it to Israel!
Maybe we're better at it. :)
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Zechariah
Mar 10 2014, 11:02 PM
Snidely Whiplash
Mar 10 2014, 11:00 PM
Whozthatgurl
Mar 10 2014, 10:50 PM
Wow!!! a waste of money considering that illegal crossing from Mexico into the U.S. is at an all time record low.

And I wonder why they couldn't give the contract to an American firm? Why Israel? :-/
Exactly wtg. Americans need the work and they give it to Israel!
Maybe we're better at it. :)
Maybe over in the middle east your're good at it. Israel needs the constant protection.

Mexico has done nothing to the U.S.A. but looked the other way while their people seek a better way of life here in the U.S.A.

All the terrorist who attacked the U.S.A on U.S.A. soil didn't come through the Mexican boarder. So once again, why should a contract go to Israel?
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Mar 10 2014, 11:02 PM
Snidely Whiplash
Mar 10 2014, 11:00 PM
Whozthatgurl
Mar 10 2014, 10:50 PM
Wow!!! a waste of money considering that illegal crossing from Mexico into the U.S. is at an all time record low.

And I wonder why they couldn't give the contract to an American firm? Why Israel? :-/
Exactly wtg. Americans need the work and they give it to Israel!
Maybe we're better at it. :)
Or ...maybe it's due to the fact that racist Caucasian-Israeli's control the USA ...LOL...I mean hey, it's like your punkazz said;

since racism permeates the USA then I guess Israel decided to show that they are who created that very permeation.
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Mar 10 2014, 11:14 PM

All the terrorist who attacked the U.S.A on U.S.A. soil didn't come through the Mexican boarder...
Duh?


It's about preventing Al Qaeda & the Taliban from focusing on entering the USA via the mex-border, as we've removed their other options since 2001.
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