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Letter Report to the FBI
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was delivered to FBI management and a briefing of the study committee's findings, conclusions, and recommendations was given to you, the chief information officer, and some other members of your team. As noted in the report, the committee's findings and conclusions were based primarily on FBI briefings to the NRC's Committee on the FBI's Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program on October 27-28, 2003, and December 15-16, 2003.
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In an important step toward obtaining authoritative operational input, he reported that he is reconstituting the Enterprise Architecture Board to include senior representatives of 11 operational divisions of the FBI. In addition, he reported that he intends to require signoff on the EA by the bureau's executive assistant directors and division assistant directors.
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Within the limits of a short demonstration of the IDW to the committee on May 20, the IDW appears to provide some of the key capabilities necessary for intelligence use. More detailed examination and review would be needed to determine the extent and nature of enhancements to today's IDW that are needed to serve effectively the full set of operational needs for intelligence analysis.1 The FBI managers providing the May 20 briefing on the IDW noted that internal demand for the capabilities provided today by the IDW was strong and that the current user base of 500 is expected to grow rapidly in the future.
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On May 20, Mr. Azmi reported to the committee the establishment of a new IT project management office, staffed largely by people transferred from the Information Resources Division of the FBI, and said that some of these individuals with substantial project management experience had been assigned as project managers for the VCF project.
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in base salary plus performance bonuses; engaging the services of two executive recruitment firms to assist in the identification and recruitment of individuals for IT and other specialized areas; contacting chief executive officers of several private companies and senior managers of government agencies in an effort to identify individuals who might be borrowed by the FBI to assist with IT work; preparing a request to the Department of Justice for authority to establish seniorlevelpositions for information technology; preparing a human capital plan that establishes a framework for FBI-wide human capital planning, recruitment, and development; and undertaking a reengineering initiative on workforce training and development that resulted in a 5-year plan for designing and implementing a training and development program for every job series within the FBI, including those in the technical and scientific areas. Observations and comments: The committee believes that the appointment and subsequent leadership of Mr.
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Indeed, clear progress was visible in the appointment of a permanent CIO, the IDW demonstration to the committee, and the formation of a staffed program office for improved IT contract management. In other areas, the update briefing described recent plans and intentions to carry out many of the actions that the committee had recommended, such as a commitment to develop an alternative to the previously planned flash cutover.
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COMMITTEE ON THE FBI's TRILOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION PROGRAM JAMES C MCGRODDY, IBM (retired)
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