Under the heading of “Feds’ Tech Follies – First in an Occasional Series,� CNET is running a lengthy story U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about how IT issues are hobbling Homeland Security, creating incredible processing delays and, now, giving federal IT a black eye.
One back-handed gesture to the size and the complexity of the problem comes from a computer scientist at SRI International:
Large, distributed government systems are too often victims of poor planning, said Peter Neumann, a principal scientist in the computer science lab at SRI International, a not-for-profit research institute.
"What is needed is a set of requirements that really makes sense in the first place and an architecture that is capable of satisfying those requirements--a very serious software engineering discipline to ensure a system is not only going to meet those requirements but be evolvable over time," said Neumann, who has served on technical advisory committees for the IRS and the Government Accountability Office.
Yes, but...
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