FBI delays virtual file network.While Congress seems to be constantly expanding the U.S. government's data-collection efforts, the Federal Bureau of Investigations Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. (FBI) is struggling to manage the data it has today. FBI officials recently said they would not be able to fully deploy a long-awaited computer system to manage the bureau's case files before the end of 2004 as promised, and that they could not predict when the entire system would be in place, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times report. The Virtual Case File system, which would allow agents to share information easily--a critical shortcoming short·com·ing n. A deficiency; a flaw. shortcoming Noun a fault or weakness Noun 1. of the present system--is already two years behind schedule. One bureau official told the Times that the program might ultimately have to be abandoned. FBI Director Robert S Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. . Mueller III told a Senate panel after 9/11 that the bureau's computer system was so limited that it could not search its files for combinations of terms such as "flight" and "schools"--the kind of search that might have helped prevent the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mueller said the system could only search for words such as "flight" and "school" one at a time. According to a staff report from the bipartisan commission investigating the 9/11 attacks, the FBI's primary information system, which was designed using 1980s technology, was "already obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447. when installed in 1995." The report said "field agents usually did not know what investigations agents in their own office, let alone in other field offices, were working on." In 2000, Congress approved the Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. project, which includes the Virtual Case File system. But more than $500 million into the four-year-old project, the FBI has only received new computers and access to e-mail and Internet for agents, the Times reports. A May National Research Council report revealed that the FBI was "not on a path "co success" with the program and, though a follow-up report released in June said that the bureau had taken important steps to fix the problems and had made progress, "many important challenges remain." |
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