Dept of Homeland Security: inexcusable IT waste on ADVISE project

(Last Updated On: 17. September 2007)

Following its $30 billion virtual fence debacle, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has disclosed another failed IT-related project, this one costing $42 million. DHS has suspended, and will likely cancel, a massive data-mining initiative on grounds that it violated privacy standards. Significantly, the program has also suffered from dramatic, severe, and systematic project management failures.
The ADVISE (Analy­sis, Dissemina­tion, Visu­ali­zation, Insight and Semantic Enhance­ment) program, which is still in the prototype and testing stage, is part of a large-scale, anti-terrorism data analysis operation run by DHS. As reported by Mark Clayton in the Christian Science Monitor, ADVISE is intended to “display data patterns visually as ’semantic graphs’ – a sort of illuminated information constellation – in which an analyst’s eye could spot links between people, places, events, travel, calls, and organizations worldwide.” For additional background, see another Christian Science Monitor article written by Mark Clayton.
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