Purportedly.
Posted on 04/14/2020 5:32:18 AM PDT by BeauBo
BFBC has been awarded a $569M contract modification to design and build a 17.17-mile security wall along the Customs and Border Protection's San Diego and El Centro sectors in California.
The Department of Defense said Monday it estimates that the company will finish the project in June 30, 2021.
USACE initially awarded BFBC a potential $141.7M contract in May 2019 to replace the El Centro and Yuma vehicle and pedestrian barrier systems.
The agency obligated the full amount of the modification at the time of award from its fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance funds.
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Nobody even blinks about these any more. They don't make the news. But this $569,000,000 alone is more than the $400 million that went toward the wall in all of 2017.
This is yet another case (a few in the last few weeks) where the Military took a contract that they had already building border wall with last year's money, and expanded it (quadrupled it, in this case) with this year's money, rather than go through another lengthy competition, potential protest delays, and the start up times required by new contractors. They may well have planned to do it this way, all along.
Judging by the high cost per mile, it would seem that they are biting off some of the hard to build miles in the mountains.
California is in a race with New Mexico, to be the first State with it's Mexican Border entirely walled off.
Do these Wall haves sensors or a way to know if there are tunnels under them ?
Dreamers, Central American caravans, family separation, kids in ‘bamy cages, no racists walls, remember that stuff? The left cashed in all of that BS with barely a whimper and just walked away from keeping the border unsecured. Trump, with only individual deplorable support, is 100% responsible.
Yes.
More great news to start the day!
Thanx BeauBo
Has anyone pinged Coulter?
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“Do these Wall haves sensors or a way to know if there are tunnels under them?”
Yes.
The Administration likes to use the term “Wall System”, instead of just “Wall”, because it includes just those kinds of sensors and alarms, as well as the roads required for rapid response, lights, and cameras.
Embedded seismic (vibration) sensors can detect tunneling activity. So can buried fiber optic cables, or different types of unmanned ground sensors, which can be rapidly relocated (like driving a spike into the ground).
Additionally, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can identify underground cavities (pre-existing tunnels), or can identify changes from a past baseline. The roads that run parallel to the new barrier can be regularly patrolled by vehicles mapping underground with GPR, scanning for new tunnels.
If it is the terrain I think it is it is very rugged and will require a great deal of excavation to successfully place the wall.
I wish they would get Arizona done. Maybe the Indian reservation is stopping it.
At a Freeper suggestion, I have been watching the Netflix series Narcos....Mexico.
A major theme is the construction of elaborate tunnels to transit cocaine. At the completion of one very elaborate tunnel, the patron gave out bonuses to the hardhatted tunnelers and then provided a meal.
Then he had them all shot
The point is that tunnels are old technology and we most heve developed detection technology some time ago
“If it is the terrain I think it is, it is very rugged”
17.7 miles, including parts of the San Diego Sector of the Border, and the El Centro Sector.
It may be the total of a series of smaller segments, to fill existing gaps.
There is already a run going in through the flat part of the Jacumba Wilderness in El Centro Sector (I think 15 miles), so it won’t include that. Tecate and Calexico have both already gotten a few miles on each side of their Ports of Entry.
Where do you think it will go?
There is a very rough area near Ocotillo that only had minimal fencing the last time I was there. Which has been a while.
“I wish they would get Arizona done. Maybe the Indian reservation is stopping it.”
Arizona just has a lot of border (370 miles), compared to California or New Mexico - but a lot is being built already under contract (about half).
In addition to the new Trump Style Super Wall System, the whole of the Arizona Border (including the Tohono O’Odham Nation) is getting persistent surveillance by Integrated Fixed Towers (IFT). It is already funded and contracted. It may be completed by the end of this year.
There is still another $3.6 billion in this year’s Military Construction money, that has not dropped yet, so Arizona might get some of that as well.
Take heart, that what is being built, has been carefully prioritized to get the most important parts first.
I think around Ocotillo/West of Ocotillo is a good bet.
Probably somewhere between there and Campo, is my guess.
They have the data, and the input of the Border Patrol Officers who have been hunting in that area every day though, and know where its most needed.
Purportedly.
These kind of tunnels are not unknown, but not exactly common either.
They are the work of well resourced criminal cartels, who have also been known to use large submarines and jet aircraft.
Jose Six-Pack and the local teenagers are not likely to tunnel 31 feet deep for 2,000 feet, especially not without killing themselves in the process.
The great bulk of tunneling attacks will be deterred or defeated by the new Wall System design.
At the high end of the spectrum, where cartels can hire International jewel thieves, circus acrobats, and buy Chinese tunneling machines that could bore traffic tunnels under the sea, it is a different kind of problem, requiring a different approach to be cost effective.
Just as no barrier is going to cost-effectively stop the very last 1 out of a billion attempted climbers (Mount Everest is routinely climbed with ropes and ladders), no barrier is going to be absolutely immune to extraordinarily deep tunneling.
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