Bush's Secret Weapons For Secure Borders: Tethered Aerostat Radar... Global Hawk...

NY Times ERIC LIPTON May 17, 2006 at 11:31 PM
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The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors.

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar federal contract to build what the administration calls a "virtual fence" along the nation's land borders.

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