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The FBI's IT Expansion Plans
Lam1969 writes "The FBI is fast-tracking the hiring of IT professionals, reports Computerworld. Computer scientists, engineers, IT specialists and IT project managers are wanted to develop systems to support FBI analysts and agents working in the field. Large-scale database development projects are part of the FBI's IT expansion as well. From the article: "The FBI is also focusing on data warehousing as well as federated search technology, which allows a single search query to be deployed across a number of databases, regardless of whether those databases belong to the same protocol or platform.""
It's a government agency, what did you expect? They just let you in without any screening whatsoever?
The US government wants to make sure that, if you join their ranks, they know more about you than anybody else. IMO, a good thing.
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