FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again 96
gManZboy writes "The FBI's Sentinel project, a digital case-management system meant to replace outdated, paper-based processes, has been delayed again. The FBI's CIO and CTO bet big on using agile development to hasten the project's completion. But now performance issues have arisen in testing and deployment has been pushed out to May. It's the latest in a series of delays to build a replacement for the FBI's 17-year-old Automated Case Support system. In 2006, the FBI awarded Lockheed Martin a $305 million contract to lead development of Sentinel, but it took back control of the project in September 2010 amid delays and cost overruns. At the time, the FBI said it would finish Sentinel within 12 months, using agile development strategies."
the glass is half... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:They probably wrote it in Java (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the glass is half... (Score:5, Funny)
Which is worse, that the FBI waited 4 years to kick Lockheed off the project or that the FBI has regained control of unfinished software?
The worst is the realisation that the only thing saving us from law-enforcement totalitarian nirvana is institutional incompetence.
If they ever really get their shit together we are so screwed.