Why yes, of course! LOL!
Hey, everyone! Newbie raiderboy only voted for Trump to get the wall!
Where is the damned Wall. Im tired of waiting. Was it just a stunt to get my vote?
Yes and welcome free republic btw.
So Newbie, the only reason you voted for Trump was the wall, other than that you was gonna vote for Hillary???
Hey, everyone! Newbie raiderboy only voted for Trump to get the wall!
An open competition was held to get the best ideas for an effective barrier. Submissions were reviewed, and contracts were awarded for eight different prototypes to built for testing. Construction of the prototypes is complete, and we are now waiting thirty days for the concrete to cure, before conducting tests.
Up close, they are fomidible, running around 30 feet high.
Some wall will definitely be built, especially in San Diego and the Rio Grande Valley area of South Texas (Brownsville, McAllen). I expect the first task orders under the new contract to be awarded in the next few months. The real issue will be how much money gets in the budget. The way the contract is structured they could do very little, or a massive effort, depending on how much funding is added.
Customs and Border Protection wants double barriers in the tough urban areas, with an enforcement zone (no man's land) in between them, wired with sensors, lights and cameras.
Didn’t You see the Prototypes going up in South California dude? Get a design and THEN you build.
“Where is the damned Wall. I’m tired of waiting.”
Prototypes will be ready for testing 27 Nov (concrete cured to specification).
Testing is estimated to take 30-60 days - possibly complete before Christmas, if not, then around mid-January.
The first task orders would likely take 30-60 days each for bids, and then evaluation/selection.
Work should commence within 30 days of award (my estimate). I’d guess that construction will start April or May 2018. Award protests could again delay the contracting, and special emphasis might possibly expedite some steps, so plus or minus three months.
The consensus seems to be that $1.6 billion will be in the FY18 budget, to replace the San Diego barrier (14-16 miles), and build 60 new miles in the urbanized Rio Grande Valley. These have been the biggest crossing areas (called Phase 1 in the plan).
Once the contractors have been working, have their crews trained, suppliers lined up and the bugs worked out, they will be ready to ramp up with additional crews and equipment.
Fiscal Year 2019, which starts October 1st 2018, is the real opportunity to start large scale construction. $10 billion in the FY19 budget would be about an all-you-could-eat wall construction feast, funding up to 1,000 miles of barrier (but at least several hundred high priority miles). They might not finish building all that in FY 2019, but the contracts could be awarded, and the funds committed.
$10 billion in FY 2019 would complete Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the plan - which would do all the high crossing urbanized areas along the border. Phase 3 is the remaining long stretches of rural areas.
$10 billion in the FY19 budget, and $10 Billion more in FY20 would basically get the wall built, during Trump’s first term.
It is a major construction project - but once that concrete is in place, it will be equally hard to move when a Democrat Administration wants to scuttle it. They can pull the guards back, but a thirty foot wall will always have an inherent deterrent ability.
Being the government, they had to issue an RFP and then as part of the source-selection process, prototypes are built.
After that then a wall design will be chosen and that’s it.
It is Congress that wrote laws defining the source-section process.
You really thought it would be finished in ten months?