Congress Votes More Funds for Border UAVs

Congress is rushing two more unmanned aircraft into the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) fleet. Under the roughly $600 million bill passed in mid-August, Congress appropriated $32 million for UAVs through September 2012. The agency counts six General Atomics Predator Bs now, including one that...

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