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This sounds too familiar. In 1989 an alien processing program was introduced to the then INS. To this day it does not function the way it should. Total cost $100 million and counting. Staggering especially when lowly agents in the field developed a much better program for less than $60,000.00. Let's hear it for the big government contracts.
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The rich get richer. Give someone else a chance at this contract.
Oh well, at least its not being gobbled up by Halliburton. Did you guys at the White House miss this one?
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Lockheed Martin Corp., Accenture and Computer Sciences Corp. are the leading contenders for the big project. What happened to the small companies that know how to do the work? Could it be that the agency has bundled every stager of the development into a single contract to award to one of these giants as the prime? Of course - that is how it is done! Why develop several contracts to develop various aspects of this system that would allow small businesses to compete for a piece of the pie that the military industrial complex wants to keep ahold of to prevent competition. This way the project becomes too big and the contractor and the agency can fall back on the "sheer size" of the project as the reason for failure. the sytem will not meet deadlines and will not deliver what it is supposed to deliver and no one will be accountable.
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