Agreed. I worked for the company that was infamously associated with FBI's 'Virtual Case File' fiasco. Though I joined a few years after it was already finishe

Agreed. I worked for the company that was infamously associated with FBI's 'Virtual Case File' fiasco. Though I joined a few years after it was already finished, there were many employees still around who had worked on the project. The reason the project failed was almost entirely the fault of the FBI project managers and other bureaucrats. Huge egos, technical incompetence, and petty politics were the biggest issues. This was coming from talented non-mgmt engineers, too, so i'm pretty confident in the veracity of their claims Anyway, after working in gov. contracting for a decade, I've come to really believe that most Fed workers are actually pretty bright, but they become so fixated on politics instead of results, they end up doing far worse than their less educated counterparts in the private sector. The more privileged the agency (i.e. FBI, other Intel agencies, State Department, etc.) the worse the politicking becomes as they are far more insulated from scrutiny and less limited with funding from Congress.