NY cancels contract for emergency worker radio network

The state of New York has canceled a $2.1 billion contract to build a wireless network for use by statewide emergency workers across, according to The New York Times.

Along with the termination letter to Tyco subsidiary M/A-COM, the state's chief technology officer, Melanie Mayberry-Stewart, complained that M/A-COM had not addressed technical problems in work that was already done, the report said.

The newspaper has reported that state officials are close to ending the project because problems with tests of the network had them worried the system would not work properly.

Lawyers for the contractor said officials were canceling the contract because of political and financial pressure, not for technical reasons.

Plans for the project, which is two years behind schedule, arose after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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I had a slime bucket client cancel a contract on me once. I sued the living crap out of them and now own a piece of their business. THINK before you do stupid stuff...

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Friggin over-budget slime bucket contractors should have the livin ---- sued out of them and be put out of business. They're sooo friggin lucky public entities can only disbar them from future contracts and even then the friggin contractors pay off some underpaid official and these dirt ball contractors return under a new name and rip off the governmental agencies and public again. YOu see it happinin every day everywhere (big city, small town, North, South, East, West)--unions and contractors caused the economic bust. Don't think winning in court proves anyone is right; it all falls back on the crooked judges the crooked politicians put on the bench.