Virtual Case File (or VCF) was a software application developed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) between 2000 and 2005. The project was officially abandoned in January 2005, while still in development stage and cost the federal government nearly $170 million. It is an iconic example of tax money waste in a failed attempt to fix a dangerously obsolete government system. In this case it is a failed attempt to replace obsolete government information technology in a reluctantly forced response from 911 to the critically inefficient information architecture in the FBI. Bureau largess, bureaucracy, and counter-productive competition can be seen to contribute to the failed implementation of a superior replacement system. SAIC was contracted to coordinate VCF.
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