Email Delivery

Receive new posts as email.

Email address

Syndicate this site

RSS 0.91 | RSS 2.0
RDF | Atom
Podcast only feed (RSS 2.0 format)
Get an RSS reader
Get a Podcast receiver

Contact

About This Site
Contact Us
Privacy Policy

Search

Google

Web this site

August 2007
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  

Stories by Category

Events :: Events Conferences
Hardware :: Hardware
Media :: Media Video
Radios :: Radios
Responder :: Responder Fire Police Rescue
Software :: Software
Spectrum :: Spectrum 4.9 GHz 700 MHz

Archives

August 2007 | July 2007 | May 2007 | April 2007 | March 2007 | February 2007 | January 2007 | December 2006 | November 2006 | September 2006 | August 2006 | July 2006 |

Recent Entries

Sprint Nextel's Move off Old Spectrum for Public Safety Users Lags
700 MHz Public Safety Auction Rules Allot 24 MHz to Public Safety
Cameras in Watts Cause 32 Percent Drop in Crime
FCC Chair Favors Public-Private for 700 MHz
Beaverton Builds Citywide Public Safety Network
More Debate on 700 MHz Public Safety Allotments
PacketHop Upgrades Video Options, Adds Hardware
Motorola Adds Wireless Video Surveillance to Municipal Kit
Federal Integrated Wireless Network at High Risk of Failure
Dallas Rolls Out Wireless Video Surveillance

Site Philosophy

This site operates as an independent editorial operation. Advertising, sponsorships, and other non-editorial materials represent the opinions and messages of their respective origins, and not of the site operator or JiWire, Inc.

Copyright

Entire site and all contents except otherwise noted © Copyright 2001-2006 by Glenn Fleishman. Some images ©2006 Jupiterimages Corporation. All rights reserved. Please contact us for reprint rights. Linking is, of course, free and encouraged.

Powered by
Movable Type

« Dallas Rolls Out Wireless Video Surveillance | Main | Motorola Adds Wireless Video Surveillance to Municipal Kit »

March 27, 2007

Federal Integrated Wireless Network at High Risk of Failure

By Glenn Fleishman

The Justice Department’s inspector general gives national law enforcement wireless network poor marks: $200m has been spent with little to show for it. The majority of the $772m allotted to the program was used to support the older, existing networks. The system’s overall cost will be $5b and take until 2021 to complete; 81,000 agents of the Justice, Homeland Security, and Treasury departments are to use the network. The Department of Homeland Security can’t wait for progress and is charting its own course.

Private analysts now peg the full cost at $30b, according to The Washington Post. The project is 15 months behind at present. In-fighting among departments, a long-standing problem in federal law enforcement, is one of the factors, the inspector general found.

A number of large-scale federal projects have been abandoned in recent years after hundreds of millions or even billions being spent, including an FBI project mentioned in this article, and the next-generation air-traffic control system. Software projects don’t scale, and integrated software/hardware projects are always orders of magnitude greater than expected.

For a great book on why projects like this fail, and how to avoid some of those problems, read Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code. He explains how software complexity has outstripped program management capability.

Posted by Glennf at March 27, 2007 1:48 PM

Categories: Radios

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
https://db.isbn.nu/mt3/mt-tb.pl/4470

Comments

Post a comment




Remember Me?

(you may use HTML tags for style)