In July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security quietly scuttled a multi-billion dollar program to install high-tech radiation detectors at the nation‘s ports. A top priority of the Bush administration, the advanced spectroscopic portal (ASP) devices that the Raytheon Company was being paid to build weren‘t just way behind schedule and enormously over budget — they didn‘t actually appear to work. The failed project cost taxpayers well over $230 million.