Right after the 9/11 attacks, Washington needed airline security fixed -- and fast.So the bean counters didn't look closely at some of the bills until just recently. Guess what they found?
Unisys landed a $1 billion dollar contract to beef up technology. Federal auditors claim the company overbilled taxpayers for 171,000 hours of work. Unisys charged $131 an hour -- for workers paid only half that much.
They were supposed to build a computer network for the Transportation Security Administration. It would link thousands of TSA screeners to a central security center.
Four years later, you're still paying.
The contract is costing twice as much as predicted. And the network isn't anywhere near finished.
[News & Politics]
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