What Really Happened with the FBIs Virtual Case File System?
As I noted yesterday, I was recently in Washington, D.C. attending a breakfast seminar sponsored by Government Executive magazine on the topic, “What Are the Essential Ingredients for a Successful Large IT Project?” The two gentlemen speaking were Randolph (Randy) Hite, Director, IT Architecture and Systems Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office and Zal Azmi, Chief Information Officer, Federal Bureau of Investigation. My previous post centered on Mr. Hite’s comments, today I’ll focus on Mr. Azmi’s. Azmi spoke of the current Sentinel project, the follow-on to the infamous Virtual Case File (VCF) system that failed so spectacularly a few years ago. IEEE Spectrum’s Senior Associate Editor Harry Goldstein wrote an in depth story on VCF. According to the FBI, “Sentinel will consolidate and replace the FBI’s legacy case management capabilities with an integrated, paperless file management and workflow system,” and be implemented in four phases. Phase I recently completed, and Phase II
