CNN/AP: FBI computer system short on funds; Leahy: "Mismanagement knows no bounds."

[DeepModem Mom]

FBI computer system short on funds
December 5, 2006



WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI faces a $56.7 million funding gap as it builds a new computer system to replace a problem-riddled database of investigation files, Justice Department auditors said Monday.

With careful oversight, the Sentinel program still could be successful, auditors from the department's inspector general's office concluded. Even so, the Bush administration's funding request for this year's share of the $425 million system, set for completion in 2009, falls short of what the bureau said it needs keep it on track.

The FBI asked for an estimated $150 million in the fiscal year that began October 1; the White House approved spending $100 million. Congress is not expected to approve the FBI's funding until next year....

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The funding concerns over Sentinel follow the FBI's decision last year to scrap a botched $170 million project to build a paperless case management system. FBI Director Robert Mueller abandoned the project, called Virtual Case File, after consultants said it was obsolete and riddled with problems.

Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont., questioning whether the funding gap would bring cuts to the FBI's counter-terrorism programs, said "mismanagement of this project seems to know no bounds."...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/05/fbi.computers.ap/index.html

[leftofcool]

1. Gee, why upgrade your puters................

when you don't have a goddamn clue as to what constitutes terrorism anyway. Yea, just give new equipment, that'll solve all the problems and maybe even help ya learn the difference between a Suni and a Shi'ia. Too bad there isn't funding for brains.

Left of Cool

[SpiralHawk]

2. With Bush at the helm, the republicons couldn't run a lemonade stand

He has to be the worst fiscal manager in the history of planet earth.

He has screw up every company and business deal he's ever been involved with.

It is going to take America decades to climb out of the hole that Bush and the republicons have dug for us.

[htuttle]

3. Finally getting rid of that snazzy 'write-only' database, I see?

:rofl:

For those who don't remember, there was a time a few years ago when the FBI said they could put information into their database, but said they couldn't search for information to get it out again, for fear of damaging the database.