Comments on: FBI ripped for IT upgrade costs

Auditors criticize the agency for more than $17 million in "questionable contractor costs" and missing equipment.

[jdeere_man]

What else is new?

Who should this suprise? And what about that "click here for the pdf". Is that supposed to be some ironic joke that their is actually no link there. Like the government would release any information confirming their fault?

[kamwmail-cnet1]

FBI = Fumbling Bumbling Idiots

It's an agency started by a cross-dressing queer (Hoover). What did you expect?

[dondarko]

question

First of all where are they pulling these massive amounts of money for this project from? $500 mil, another 425 over next six years. Why in the hell is it costing so much? I don't think every person in the agency needs a most souped up computer. A very decent computer costs around $500-800. And as for the costs of developing the Sentinel progam, why is it costing so much? Even if it is a entire operating system that they are building, which I think they are not, it should not cost that much. And Lockheed Martin should not get a contract for that. There are many companies out there far capable of developing systems like that for a fraction of the cost. But I guess lobby does have its hands in this. Ban of lobbying should be appropriate. What a waste of money this is. God help us. Too many billions floating around in all these sums. And they say inflation us under control. Blah.

[jgo10]

$425 Million Seems Low

I'd imagine that Sentinle is so far behind becuase nobody at the FBI can define the requirements making it impossiable for any contracting firm to deliver. I know several large companys that spend $100MM on SAP installations which are pretty vanllia compared a highly specialized application for a process nobody understands and that is suppose to be at the foundation of what the FBI does is really suppose to work.

Makes me wondering if $500MM is really enough to make this happen or if the real price is going to $1BB becuase of the cost overruns that come with tbe gov't beurcraciy.

[edgirard]

Where's the Oversight and Controls on this project?

our country is $300 billion, or, even more in the red; then, add fiascos like this and other known or undiscovered monetary expenditures and losses to the totals after intrests on the borrowing to pay all the above and the result will be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Then look at the cuts in education, Social Security, Medicare, Veterans Administration Medical and other programs.
There's a pattern here.

[edgirard]

Where's the Oversight and Controls on this project?

our country is $300 billion, or, even more in the red; then, add fiascos like this and other known or undiscovered monetary expenditures and losses to the totals after intrests on the borrowing to pay all the above and the result will be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Then look at the cuts in education, Social Security, Medicare, Veterans Administration Medical and other programs.
There's a pattern here.

[HMCIV]

How carefully did the GAO study these numbers?

$20,000/19 1st class tickets = $1052 per ticket.
$100,000/75 Coach tickets = $1333 per ticket.

So the 1st class tickets were on average cheaper than the Coach tickets they highlighted. Also keep in mind, the FBI flies in literally hundreds of consultant's to support this project each week. Sometimes you can't get a good rate. Sometimes you can't get coach. Sometimes the airline bumps you because they overbooked your seat.