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June 7, 2007

Boeing helps build virtual fence on the border

  • When the system is operational later this month, nine metal towers equipped with cameras, radar and sensors will patrol 28 miles of the Arizona-Mexico border.
    • By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
    Associated Press Writer

    Photo by Thom Goertel/Boeing [enlarge]
    The first integrated mobile sensor tower was tested in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Nine of the towers have been installed near the border town of Sasabe, Ariz.

    TUCSON, Ariz. — When Elizabeth Isaman leaves the El Mirador Ranch smack on the Mexican border, she can see a tall metal tower, packed with cameras, radar and sensors about a quarter-mile away.


     
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