Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General
The FBI's Management of the Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Project (Audit 05-07)
Report · written February 2005 · released February 2005
Why this matters
The audit of Trilogy, the FBI's post-9/11 IT overhaul, including the Virtual Case File software abandoned after about $170 million because it did not work. It catalogs shifting requirements, weak contract management and missing technical leadership. A canonical failed-procurement document.
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https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/FBI/a0507/final.pdf
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Failed Procurement Programs
$170 million of case-management software that never shipped.
Cite
Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General. "The FBI's Management of the Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Project (Audit 05-07)." February 2005. Released February 2005. https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/FBI/a0507/final.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0066).
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