Exclusive Look at FBI's New Sentinel System 27
gManZboy writes "Six years and $450 million into the project, the FBI's Sentinel case-management system appears to be almost ready for deployment. Sentinel aims to replace a hodge-podge of digital and paper processes with purely digital workflows, helping FBI agents collaborate and "connect the dots" on investigations. The question now is how well the problem-plagued system will live up to those expectations. FBI CIO Chad Fulgham demonstrated Sentinel for InformationWeek on March 28, the first time the agency has shown its new case-management system to an outsider. 'This isn't just a case-management system. It's a great platform to grow on,' Fulgham said during the demo at FBI headquarters. The agency's IT team plans to move other apps over to Sentinel, giving them a similar look and feel on the same underlying hardware."
Re:they almost got me... (Score:5, Informative)
It actually is legit. Here's an article from 2010 giving the same budget numbers, and saying that it will be ready by 2011 at the earliest. Getting close to ready in 2012 then seems about right. Story [fiercegovernmentit.com]