Reply #34: $170 million taxpayers $$$ spent on new FBI terror computers have to ..... [View All]

be used somewhere and make another miserable failure the bush* MO http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/13/terror/main666644.shtml


FBI Terror Technology Flops

As envisioned, Virtual Case File would have allowed agents throughout the country to have instant access to extensive background on suspects: history, contacts, fingerprints, travel patterns.



(CBS/AP) A $170 million computer overhaul intended to give FBI agents and analysts an instantaneous and paperless way to manage criminal and terrorism cases is headed back to the drawing board, probably at a much steeper cost to taxpayers.

CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr reports the system, labeled Virtual Case File is still not ready, but it's already obsolete.

Orr reports an Inspector General's report about to be released says the centerpiece of the FBI's half billion dollar technological overhaul is a bust.

The system, labeled the "Virtual Case File," is still not ready -- but already obsolete. One official calls it 2001 software ... with "a number of deficiencies" and security flaws.

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 of San Diego, is so inadequate and outdated that one will have to be built from scratch.