This message was sent to the list by Larry Cruse.----------Johnnie --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Forwarded ---------------------------------- >From: [log in to unmask] at @UCSD >Date: 12/9/96 11:55AM >*To: [log in to unmask] at @UCSD >Subject: LA Times on federal computers (fwd) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To piggyback on Paul's message, I'm forwarding a message that Patricia Cruse, a govt. information librarian at UCSD, sent to the uc documents librarians' list this morning, which mentions yesterday's story and the rest of this series of articles. - Cynthia Jahns, UC Santa Cruz ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 08:21:12 -0800 (PST) >From: Patricia Cruse <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: LA Times on federal computers The LA Times is doing a three part series that I thought might be of interest to people. The series is "examining the long history of failure in the federal government's information technology programs." The first article was yesterday on: "The $300 billion investment in information technology that has flopped, jeopardizing the nation's welfare, eroding public safety and squandering untold billions of dollars. The problems extend to virtually every agency, court and the Congress." Today's article is: "The internal Revenue Service's troubled attempts to modernize its computer systems, which have led to the expenditure of $4billion with marginal results so far in the agency's ability to track down tax cheats. Another organization, the Defense Mapping Agency, spent a decade to develop a $2.6 billion computer system that was obsolete by the time it was completed." Tomorrow's article I think will be really interesting: "The intensive effort to reform the system, which includes four major pieces of legislation enacted to streamline cumbersome federal regulation and raise the priority of information technology in the government." This series should be available on the LA Times WWW site: www.latimes.com All for now, Trisha Cruse Government Information Librarian University of California, San Diego