Posted on 04/09/2019 6:35:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Department of Defense awarded its first contracts to two companies Tuesday for construction of a barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a notice posted on the DODs website.
The Galveston, Texas-based company SLSCO was awarded a $789 million contract for border replacement wall construction in Santa Teresa, N.M., while Barnard Construction Co., a firm based in Bozeman, Mont., received a contract worth $187 million for pedestrian wall replacement in Yuma, Ariz., the DODs website stated.
Nearly two months after President Trump declared a national emergency to secure funding for the construction of his border wall, the contracts represent the first issued by the Department of Defense.
A letter received by Congress from the DOD dated March 27 stated that to date, no DoD funds have been obligated on contracts or task orders for the purpose of constructing a border wall.
This piece of information was among several details included in a letter that Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee, received Tuesday from Kenneth Rapuano, assistant secretary for homeland defense and global security at the Department of Defense.
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He’s just trying to distract the public from Mueller’s damning report that his pet AG tried to cover up with help from Russian Bots and troll farms. He better not deport any celebrities’ gardeners, pool boys and nannies because of his racist tweets, least of all not before the 2020 elections so their voices can be heard./s
bttt
Winning! More please.
JoMa
C’mon man... have you not seen the walls (term used very loosely) that they are replacing??????
Replacing a snow fence with a 30 ft steel “barrier” IS a NEW wall.
Replacing anti vehicle (anti tank) barriers, that people can pass through faster than a turnstile, with a 30 ft steel “barrier” IS a NEW wall.
It’s just gubmit spending semantics. New vs repair. Lots of money appropriated for “repair” and Trump has been spending that.
Building, oops I mean repairing old walls/fences by tearing them out completely and putting in their places a brand NEW, oops I mean replacement WALL, oops I mean barrier.
Semantics.
“... facing a medieval problem.”
Nice turn of phrase there, FRiend.
Here is an example from Calexico, Ca. New bollards on the left, old landing mat on the right. The landing mat has no foundation, and local kids can scrape away enough dirt to squirm under in just a few minutes.
11 more miles of new 30 foot bollards will be replacing the landing mat in this photo, starting in the next couple of months.
With this better barrier, comes better road for faster response, stadium lighting, permanent 24 x 7 full surveillance by mast mounted day/night cameras, sensor/alarm systems - and in this instance, reputedly a secret anti-climb active system of some sort.
He's gonna face opposition from those who make money handling the transfers, as in [WalMart]:
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