White House Situation Room Gets a Hi-Tech Upgrade

The Situation room located at washington D.C is the center of presidential activities during times of national significance.It s no wonder that everyone has been calling for a upgrade to suit modern needs.
Now all of a sudden gets a long awaited upgrade, inspired somewhat by the situation room used by Wolf Blitzer at the CNN situation room.President Bush felt that the Situation room wasn’t capable of handling the massive information network needed for a post 9/11 era.
The new and updated Situation room comes with some impressive technology that will definitely set the white house in to the modern age.The president’s primary conference room is outfitted with high definitions screens ,each with split-screen technology.Also the situation rooms comes with cameras, microphones and speakers in the ceiling.
A new ”surge room” is positioned next to the situation room, where the watch officers will moniter threats and information coming in 24/7.
The latest modifications aren’t the type of technology you will find in those high budget hollywood movies but it does the job.The price for the upgrade is classified but they claim to have been on a budget during the whole process.
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