Post-9/11 DOJ Tech Project Dying After 10 Years?

gManZboy writes "A secure, interoperable radio network that the Department of Justice has been working on for more than a decade and that has cost the agency $356 million may be headed for failure, according to a new report by the agency's inspector general. Called for in the wake of 9/11, the Integrated Wireless Network (IWS) project has already been repeatedly scaled back. Today, the Department of Justice continues to rely on several separate land mobile radio systems, some of which are unreliable, obsolete, and fail to interoperate with one another. Agents often have to swap radios, share channels, or refer to a book of radio frequencies and manually switch between those frequencies to stay online. Radios remain insecure, as much of the current equipment fails to meet encryption requirements. Much of the agency's equipment is more than 15 years old and is no longer even supported by the manufacturer."

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Re:The point was to employ contractors

[benjamindees]

Imagine a world in which the US government blew up the Twin Towers and there was no record of it because all the recordings of them telling people that they were about to blow them up didn't exist because their communication was encrypted.

Imagine a world in which all the neo-con morons in the Bush administration got the "new Pearl Harbor" that they wanted in order to launch us into WWIII so that they could profit from the resulting war spending and rise in oil prices.

Imagine a world in which the entire DOJ was a bunch of drug and gun-running criminals who spent their entire careers covering up torture and murders and false-flag attacks that they perpetrated.

Imagine a world where you could never know anything about this, because everyone who said it in public were either quietly censored or secretly detained indefinitely in gulag prison camps.