FBI hires Lockheed to upgrade it computers

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=a3f0d4c1cbc1856d

The FBI has hired Lockheed Martin Corp. to upgrade its computer system, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.

The apparently Herculean task of modernizing the agency's computer system had been tried by Science Applications International Corp., but the effort was unsuccessful
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I'll let you read the punchline but
Lets take a guess at how much

$100 Billion for the military complex... and how much will be OUTSOURCED???

[tularetom]

1. What - Halliburton was too busy?

Working on the "new" ports deal I guess.

[physioex]

2. Pffft.....

They could have hired Tata Consultancy. They would glady do the job for a 1/10th of the price...

[lovuian]

4. They don't fit the requirements

Not Honest
Easily corruptible
Outsources
and greedy

oh and throw in Incompetence!!!

[physioex]

5. Are you serious?????

Shocking... :spank: ;)

[DELUSIONAL]

7. this has to be a very bad joke

The quality of computers and computer support given their own employees was piss poor -- suddenly this company is "expert" enough to take over and fix the FBI's screwed up computer network??

They'll probably sub-contract to India or something.

[lovuian]

3. carlyle can help I'm sure!!! LOL!!!

Hey don't ya love paying a company to screw up and then get another company to try... LOL!!!

Are we having fun!!! :rofl:

[haele]

8. Not only that...

Ya pay a company to provide one overall project on a short timeline with about 25 or 30 different components that need to be completed within the project, then change your mind on what you want done to those components over a dozen times, then pull the contract out from under them when they can't complete the overall project on time, even though they stayed within the tight budget you set for them.
The overall groundwork for the project has already been accomplished.
So now, you crank out another contract to a company that's run by your buddies - that couldn't have done the groundwork for less than twice what the first company did it for - to "fix" the problems that aren't there and complete the project by tying up a few loose ends for three times again the costs that the first company would have charged you.

Waste, Fraud, and abuse. Especially since the various political appointees put in charge of directing the update (instead of the career government employees who had been planning the update in the first place) had changed eight times over the two years the project was supposed to be accomplished, and much of the paperwork concerning the change orders they requested was confusing, contradicting, or lost, it was almost impossible to track exactly who was at fault.

It's done in the MI and government contracting "business" more and more. The few really profitable companies have been set up as "fixers" that come in after the hard work had been done by someone else, and the rest of the good companies are kept around so that they can do the majority of the hard work - much of it as "freebies" in a vain attempt to keep the contract to the end, then get screwed towards the end of a contract so the "fixers" can come in and get a higher profit as well as the completion bonus.

Privatization is just another name for "We're going to ignore quality and regulations and run this government entity like Mafia middlemen - what ya gonna do about it".

There's just enough follow on work to keep the good companies from dropping out altogether.

It sucks, but that's what has been happening over the past three-four years.

Haele

[kineneb]

6. could be done for lots less by local geeks

with spare parts & open source software...all those unemployed IT people...

[bemildred]

9. Fools.

Flush!
:hurts: