
IFT Delay? Senate appropriators say in a report accompanying their version of the FY ’15 Homeland Security Appropriations bill that initial delivery of the first fixed border surveillance tower could be delayed until the end of FY ’14 or later due to a contract protest. Customs and Border Protection selected Israel’s Elbit Systems in late February for the $145 million Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT) program but Raytheon filed a protest with the GAO over the award, forcing work to be…