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Napolitano Directs Flexible Use of Technologies for Border Security

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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week ended the virtual fence portion of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) which was not meeting expectations and instead has directed her department to focus on a new technology plan that will take a flexible approach to deploying proven technologies along the nation's southwest border depending on the unique needs of each area. Those technologies may include the multi-sensor, fixed-tower sites that Boeing [BA] has been developing along two relatively short border sections in…

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