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Sentinel had been a case study in federal IT projects gone awry–missed deadlines, budget overruns, feature shortcomings, and a benchmark test last October that pooped out. The FBI Inspector General, in a 2010 report on Sentinel, cited "significant issues and concerns." FBI director Robert Mueller faced a grilling from Congress on how, when, and at what cost this all-important project would be completed.
Keep in mind that Sentinel has roots in an earlier IT project failure, the so-called Virtual Case File system. The agency pulled the plug on that effort in 2005 after pouring $170 million into it. So this week's announcement that Sentinel, as of July 1, became available to all FBI employees is a major achievement. Mueller, in a written statement, called it "an important step forward" for the FBI.
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Private sector expertise is valuable. The first step in Sentinel's turnaround was the recruitment of a private sector IT executive, Chad Fulgham, to oversee it. Mueller brought in Fulgham, a former senior VP of IT with brokerage firm Lehman Bros., as CIO in December 2008. Mueller said Fulgham's business experience would "fit well" with the FBI's needs. It wasn't long before Fulgham hired Jeff Johnson, also a former Lehman Bros. technologist, who is now the FBI's CTO. (Fulgham left the FBI in April 2012. More on that below.)
https://www.informationweek.com/applications/fbis-sentinel-project-5-lessons-learned/d/d-id/1105637