DHS gets three new Predator drones. And they don't want them.

[thewayne]

I love it! "DHS is already struggling to operate their seven existing drones. Officials acknowledge that they are short on pilots and maintenance — right now, they can only pay to fly the drones five days a week. So now DHS is in a mad scramble trying to figure out how they can successfully incorporate three more vehicles into the roster."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/dhs-unwanted-drones/

Comments

[silveradept]

Huh. I never would have thought that DHS would have funding problems...or not enough staff to get them all in the air.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Might be a shortage of technical experts available to keep their fleet operational.

[silveradept]

Might be. Just seems that in the last decade or so, nobody would have ever heard "shortage" and "DHS" in the same sentence.