{"id":3251,"date":"2012-04-05T21:40:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:39:09","slug":"department-of-homeland-security-cook-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Department of Homeland Security – Cook Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n

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Department of Homeland Security <\/strong>– USA
\nProject type : <\/strong>Integrated security system
\nProject name : <\/strong>Project Shield
\nDate :<\/strong> Jan 2012 Cost :<\/strong>$45M<\/p>\n

Synopsis :<\/strong>
\nA project aimed at providing live camera links from police cars and other fixed locations to a central command location fails to achieve the desired results. Equipment failures, poor planning and poor training mean that as a integrated whole the system was worthless. \u00a0Staff are unfamiliar with how to use the system, the data collected through the system is of questionable value and\u00a0failure to understand operating environment in which the system would function resulted in equipment that failed under the extreme temperatures that are not uncommon in the area.<\/p>\n

Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong>
\nLack of oversight, faulty equipment, poor training, underestimation of complexity, ineffective procurement practices.<\/p>\n

Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Project Shield’ Failures: Report Finds Money-Wasting Problems In Homeland Security Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Office of the\u00a0Inspector General report<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Video news report<\/a> (Oct 2009)<\/li>\n
  4. Video news report<\/a> (Jan 2012)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Department of Homeland Security – USA Project type : Integrated security system Project name : Project Shield Date : Jan 2012 Cost :$45M Synopsis : A project aimed at providing live camera links from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-government","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}