Re: Expensive post-9/11 FBI computer upgrade not up to grade

Re: Yahoo! News - 1/14/05 - White House (AP) Cabinet & State
Expensive FBI Computer Overhaul Hits Snag
by Curt Anderson (Washington):

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20050114/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_computers>

"A post-Sept. 11 computer system was supposed to solve problems for the FBI (news - web sites), giving agents, analysts and personnel around the world the ability to share information without using paper or time-consuming scanning of documents.

"But the $170 million Virtual Case File project has proved so inadequate and outdated, it may be shelved.

"'I am frustrated by the delays,' FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday in Birmingham, Ala. "I am frustrated that we do not have on every agent's desk the capability of a modern case-management system."

"The FBI is hoping to salvage some parts of the project, known as Virtual Case File. But officials acknowledged Thursday that it is possible the entire system, designed by Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego, will have to be built from scratch."


Your tax dollars at work. Sounds like they still haven't achieved the 'vision' of e-mail this far down the line, What went wrong?.

I'd be willing to bet that everything went according to plan.

the system?

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/12/1534244
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