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FBI delays Sentinel rollout to May 2012

FBI officials attribute a further delay in rollout of a $451 million troubled digital case management effort known as Sentinel primarily to insufficient hardware capacity. In a Justice Department Read more...

Senate appropriators would give DOJ CIO more money

The Justice Department chief information officer would have slightly more money to spend in the coming fiscal year if the Senate Appropriations Committee gets it way. The committee approved its Read more...

Report questions FBI's ability to implement agile development for Sentinel

A September review of the FBI's plan to adopt agile development to complete the remainder of its troubled Sentinel web-based investigative case management system found a number of weaknesses. The Read more...

How did the FBI arrive at its new Sentinel cost and schedule estimates?

By switching to agile development, the FBI says it can now finish its troubled Sentinel project for $20 million and within 12 months--despite having already spent nearly 90 percent of its $451 Read more...

FBI: We'll complete Sentinel with $20 million and 67 percent fewer workers

The FBI says it can finish its troubled Sentinel project for $20 million and within 12 months--despite having already spent nearly 90 percent of its $451 million budget, and despite also being two Read more...

Starts and stops for FBI's Sentinel

The FBI, having voluntarily stopped work on phases three and four of its troubled Sentinel program, now wouldn't be able to re-start development work on them without approval from the Senate Read more...

Mueller: Sentinel by 2011

Sentinel, the FBI's web-based investigative case management system, should be completed in 2011, said FBI Director Robert Mueller on April 15. "My expectation is it will be completed in 2011," Read more...

Justice IG casts further doubts on FBI's Sentinel

The FBI knowingly accepted faulty software from Lockheed Martin as part of the bureau's effort to create a web-based investigative case management system, finds a Justice Department inspector general Read more...

FBI puts Sentinel on hold

The FBI will delay starting new work on Sentinel, its web-based case file application, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a House panel March 17. Mueller's decision to prolong Sentinel's second phase Read more...

Top government IT failures

Federal Computer Week has compiled a list of seven major information technology projects that went south, and in the process, cost taxpayers a pretty penny. Some were abandoned after years of work, Read more...