After the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI is moving on delayed information technology improvements. SAIC's Dana Hall said the events brought about a change in emphasis at the agency. Everyone wants "to do as much as possible" to get tools and improved capabilities for investigations into the field quickly.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and subsequent plans to reorganize the Justice Department have set in motion changes that will accelerate long-delayed improvements in the information technology capabilities of the FBI.
A major restructuring at the Commerce Department has elevated the role information technology plays there, giving chief information officers at Commerce units a conduit to the agency's upper reaches.
