The FBI Computer System Upgrade That Wasn't
Dan Eggen and Griff Witte write in The Washington Post:
As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI's technological revolution was only weeks away.More here.
It was late 2003, and a contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), had spent months writing 730,000 lines of computer code for the Virtual Case File (VCF), a networked system for tracking criminal cases that was designed to replace the bureau's antiquated paper files and, finally, shove J. Edgar Hoover's FBI into the 21st century.
It appeared to work beautifully. Until Azmi, now the FBI's technology chief, asked about the error rate.
Software problem reports, or SPRs, numbered in the hundreds, Azmi recalled in an interview. The problems were multiplying as engineers continued to run tests. Scores of basic functions had yet to be analyzed.
posted by Fergie @ 8/17/2006 09:45:00 PM
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