FBI Director Mueller
The United States Senate committee on appropriations heard FBI Director Mueller’s testimony on the 2008 Budget. Mueller’s comments were focused on five primary issues:
- Combating Terrorism
- Preventing the Acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction/Render Safe
- Defeating Foreign Intelligence Operations
- Reduce Child Exploitation and Violent Crimes
- Strengthening Infrastructure and Information Technology
Many of the questions focused on development of information technology within the organization. There was a hint of skepticism about the phased roll out of the FBI’s new case management system “Sentinel”; previous efforts to build such a system failed due to poor management at a cost of 170 million dollars. Fast-forwarding two years to the present, Lockheed Martin was named as the primary contractor for Sentinel and was awarded 305 million dollars to build it over the next six years.