Ericsson Bids for U.S.-Mexico Border Surveillance Contract
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Ericsson, the world's biggest supplier of mobile telecommunication systems, is to bid for a contract to set up a 2.1 billion euro (2.7 billion dollar) surveillance system on the US-Mexico border.More here.
The Swedish daily Dagens Industri said Ericsson would head up a consortium of mainly US companies to bid for the system, which has caused controversy in the United States.
Other members of the consortium include Computer Science Corporation, L3 and Flour, a report said Saturday.
It will be in competition with such major US players as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Boeing.
posted by Fergie @ 5/20/2006 08:02:00 AM
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