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2006-04-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by Steve 2006-04-06 09:38|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In November 2001, the bureau named ex-IBM executive Bob Dies its first chief information officer. ... He quit in May 2002. In the 19 months that followed, the FBI went through four more CIOs, and 15 key managers rotated through the Trilogy project.

This is quite impressive in a pitiful and frightening way. Organizations large and small have been automating with greater degress of success for the last couple decades.

One thing that always gets missed in giant techno-makeovers is the principle that something is better than nothing. A man with a simple spreadsheet can run rings around the guy with a yellow pad. A word processor beats a typewriter. (unless you are forging documents!) Start small and don't try to do it all at once. All large working systems have been grown from smaller working systems.

We have discussed previously how even a simple wiki would be better than the FBI's non-existant case file system. No email? Someone needs to send these lusers a truckload of discarded 486s and a box of linux disks.

Posted by SteveS 2006-04-06 10:28|| 2006-04-06 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I have said it before and will say it again. Just duplicate the CIA's and NSA's computer systems.
Same software.
Same hardware.
DONE!
Fire all the current IT folks in the FBI and the managers that try to define IT. JUST FIRE THEM!

DONE.
WORKS.
DONE.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-06 10:57|| 2006-04-06 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 But decades-old habits die hard. The FBI's old fiefdoms still linger.

Thank J. Edgar Hoover for that. A viable technique - back when the FiBbIes were busting bootleggers.

Also why Boston mob was able to buy and control the FBI office there.

Posted by Pappy 2006-04-06 11:40|| 2006-04-06 11:40|| Front Page Top

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