Fergie's Tech Blog

Upkeep Of Security Devices A Burden for U.S. Gov

Mary Beth Sheridan writes in The Washington Post:

In 2003, the FBI used a $25 million grant to give bomb squads across the nation state-of-the-art computer kits, enabling them to instantly share information about suspected explosives, including weapons of mass destruction.

Four years later, half of the Washington area's squads can't communicate via the $12,000 kits, meant to be taken to the scene of potential catastrophes, because they didn't pick up the monthly wireless bills and maintenance costs initially paid by the FBI. Other squads across the country also have given up using them.

posted by Fergie @ 8/13/2007 09:26:00 AM