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Only little information was exchanged between agents who have divided separately as group. Each job an agent was assigned to focused on his specific group. Networking systems with shared data processing are important technologies for this kind of firm. As a Web-based application VCF system was designed and was meant to be implemented in one big step. A strong level of decentralization was their in this technology . so that’s why it had to fail and, therefore, points of alignment were few. US found itself in an unstable environment after terrorist attacks of 9/11.Due to these crucial external changes, the FBI had to use its organizational structure. To face the changes of its environment transformation has to occur from a traditional hierarchical organization to a modern networked organization. Even in unstable environment FBI has to maintain its Information System then it is said to fully networked organization. Sentinel can bring a new change in case management. , the FBI now implements Sentinel was implemented in four phases by Learning mistakes from its failures with the VCF. For more mature Enterprise Architecture that allows the FBI to change their organizational strategy in accordance to the Information System Strategy of

When one thinks of the FBI, an image of utmost intelligence and professionalism comes to mind, however it was not always this way. Preceding the intricate and expert agency that takes care of national crimes and issues today, there was J. Edgar Hoover and his group of ragtag investigators. In the 1930’s, the FBI was just being founded, rising on the back of the growing organized crime that was taking place all throughout America. Bryan Burrough, author and journalist, takes his readers through this era, describing how organized crime ultimately led to the establishment of the FBI, because to cope with criminal masterminds committing atrocities all throughout America, there needs to be an organized and rational force working to stop them. Bryan

On April 19th, 1995 a homemade bomb made of a concoction of agricultural fertilizer, fuel, and other dangerous chemicals was left in a truck parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. At 9:02 in the morning, it’s blast damaged over 300 buildings surrounding the vehicle and even flattened a third of the federal building. (Strom, 2015) The bomb took the lives of 168 people, including 19 children. It was found that two men, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols were the ones who planted the device. Both men were found to be associated with a radical militia movement that sought revenge for a siege in Waco, Texas two years prior. The siege killed 82 Branch Davidians, of whom, multiple were related to the militia movement.

In the 1900’s and early 2000’s a series of events would bring a change in priorities for Federal Law Enforcement, namely the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), which was on the brink of being dissolved. “The Inspector General’s 2003 report stated that prior to 9/11, ‘the Bureau devoted significantly more special agent resources to traditional law enforcement activities such as white collar crime,

The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which will establish a timeline of events. This project background will serve as a case study for the analysis in the following section that will be structured such that each of the previously mentioned facets will be independently analyzed and contrasted with project management principles. Finally the paper will conclude with a summary of the analysis and recommendations based on

This report from the investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerned allegations of wrongdoing and improper practices within certain sections of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Laboratory. Those allegations involved some of the most significant prosecutions in the recent history of the Department of Justice, including the World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the mail bomb assassination of U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Vance (which was referred to within the FBI as the VANPAC case). The allegations implicated fundamental aspects of law enforcement: the reliability of the procedures employed by the FBI Laboratory to analyze evidence, the integrity of the persons engaging in

The bombing was quickly solved, but the investigation turned out to be one of the most exhaustive in FBI history. No stone was left unturned to make sure every clue was found and all the culprits identified. By the time it was over, the Bureau had conducted more than 28,000 interviews, followed some 43,000 investigative leads, amassed three-and-a-half tons of evidence, and reviewed nearly a billion pieces of information. In the

Later, the government changed the bombing theory and insisted that McVeigh was the sole mastermind behind the attack and that no other person other than Nichols who had been involved (Vohryzek et al, 2001). The FBI provided bogus investigation documents to prove their case, but realistically, McVeigh and Nichols were not in capacity to build such a huge fertilizer bomb due to lack of trainings in explosives. Thus, the law enforcement agencies and the federal government lacked evidence in their response to contain these attacks. Instead, they acted in a way to prove their superiority and seriousness to contain terror attacks, thus leading to deaths of innocent

Tanner, your post this week was well written, and we both had similar views from the evidence collected at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Consequently, from the rubble, investigators located the Ryder rental truck’s rear axle, which proved to be a vital piece of evidence in solving the Oklahoma City Bombing and establishing Timothy McVeigh’s involvement. Additionally, Tanner we both identified that from the truck’s rear axle, investigators were able to trace the vehicle to its rented location in Junction City, Kansas (FBI, n.d.). Furthermore, we both discussed how the FBI and the body shop’s employees developed a composite drawing of the Robert Kling, which is the alias Timothy McVeigh used to rent the truck (Saferstein, 2015).

Upon analyzing 9/11 it was clear to focus on the limitations that the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency had faced. Security breaches and poor intelligence sharing were just some of the critical failures that were encountered. Moreover, the main focus is pointed towards the miscommunication between these two agencies. Evidently, the execution and tactical strategies went unnoticed despite the apparent red flags that presented themselves, in addition to the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency failure to pursue threats and establish a baseline of security resulted in the disaster of 9/11. In conjunction to these mistakes, the restriction of shared information

The VCF project lacked of proper planning. Firstly, the FBI had no Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the start of the project. Without a CIO, the FBI had no standard software infrastructure. The FBI had 23 divisions, each with their own IT budget, investigations database and applications (Goldstein, 2005).

Then comes to the Sentinel, another new software case management system which was aim to achieve purely digital workflows during investigations. In fact, we can say that Sentinel has root in a previous IT project failure. Sentinel is the successor to Virtual Case File. On March 16th, 2006, FBI signed a contract with Lockheed Martin. By 2010, FBI has poured more than $350 million to develop Sentinel--on top of the $405 million already spent while it is barely half done and over budget. Obviously, here is not the virtual money we use in computer games but the real $100 million here and another $100 million there. FBI decided to change. First step was to stop cooperating with Lockheed Martin in July 2010 when FBI director Robert Mueller appointed Chad Fulgham to oversee Sentinel for a while. The second step came quickly, which was a transformation from classic to an iterative Scrum approach by Fulgham. He decided to complete the remaining

In the case study “Who Killed the Virtual Case File”, the author, Harry Goldstein divulges the downfall that the FBI had when they tried to implement a custom build case-management software that they were never able to use. The FBI was using many different systems and were trying to create a system that would combine all current programs/systems together to easy accessibility for all agencies in the US. Goldstein interviewed many key players within the process to gain their points of view as to why the project failed. Our team has comprised a top five risks analysis as to why the project failed in the order of importance. These are:

One of the first pitfalls with the Denver Airport was the lack of projected time. This was a very complex project that required much more time and planning than the amount allotted by the project management team. The BAE project offer was accepted because it had a significantly shorter deadline than the other three offers. While the project management team at BAE was convinced the project could have been completed in their proposed timeframe,

Software engineering has become a part of everyone’s life. People need software for various activities such as paying electricity, mobile bills through an automated systems and so on which make their work easier. Software engineering is a tedious task which involves steps such as planning, gathering requirements, designing and analysis (whether the architecture fits the requirements of the user or not), implementation (turning the design into machine executable code), testing and maintenance activities. Each step needs careful planning and execution because they involve a lot of money, time, and effort. In the same way to make their work easier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to build an automated system which provides a