{"id":33070,"date":"2013-05-13T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/140mn-down-the-drain-mi5-reportedly-scraps-failed-it-project\/33070\/"},"modified":"2013-05-13T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:07:00","slug":"140mn-down-the-drain-mi5-reportedly-scraps-failed-it-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/140mn-down-the-drain-mi5-reportedly-scraps-failed-it-project\/","title":{"rendered":"$140mn down the drain: MI5 reportedly scraps failed IT project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/mi5-it-project-failure-189\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/1f\/0d\/50\/00\/mi5-it-project-failure.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>UK intelligence agency MI5 reportedly terminated a failed multimillion-dollar IT project to centralize the agency\u2019s data stores. The system was supposed to be ready ahead of last year\u2019s London Olympics, but the consultants hired by MI5 failed to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>The new digital records management (RM) system was supposed to<br \/>\nallow for search queries and returns of various MI5 data and<br \/>\nrecords, from intelligence reports to older paper archives. The RM<br \/>\nwas intended to replace the existing system, which the agency has<br \/>\ndeemed outdated and unfit in light of the threats the country<br \/>\ncurrently faces.<\/p>\n<p>The new RM was supposed to go online by time the Summer Olympics<br \/>\nbegan in London last year, in order to help the UK\u2019s intelligence<br \/>\nagencies identify possible terrorist threats to the games. But in<br \/>\nJuly 2012, only weeks before the event, MI5 fired the IT consulting<br \/>\nfirm responsible for the system\u2019s development, as it had failed to<br \/>\nmeet deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>Then-director of MI5 Sir Jonathan Evans said the system would be<br \/>\nimplemented at a later date, and the agency hired new IT<br \/>\nconsultants to finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the Independent, the project failed to play<br \/>\nout, and earlier this year Evans decided to scrap it altogether and<br \/>\nrestart from scratch with a new generation of IT specialists. The<br \/>\nnewspaper reported that the abandonment of years of progress means<br \/>\nthe loss of about \u00a390 million pounds (about $140 million). The UK\u2019s<br \/>\nHome Office would not comment on either the fate of the project or<br \/>\nthe reported loss figure.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, when the RM&#8217;s troubles were first revealed, some<br \/>\nBritish media estimated the cost of the project to be considerably<br \/>\nlower; the Daily Mail believed the program\u2019s cost to be about \u00a31<br \/>\nmillion (over $1.5 million).<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/mi5-it-project-failure-189\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"$140mn down the drain: MI5 reportedly scraps failed IT project\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK intelligence agency MI5 reportedly terminated a failed multimillion-dollar IT project to centralize the agency\u2019s data stores. The system was supposed to be ready ahead of last year\u2019s London Olympics, but the consultants hired by MI5 failed to deliver. The new digital records management (RM) system was supposed to allow for search queries and returns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}