{"id":124,"date":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T12:00:00","slug":"dhs-puts-january-after-may-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/02\/dhs-puts-january-after-may-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Puts January After May; WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet more evidence that things are different when you’re at the top:
\nJanuary comes after May, according the DHS. \n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nGovExec.com
\nreports<\/a> that the Department of Homeland Security has released a
\nrequest for proposals to build US VISIT, a next-generation immigration
\ncomputer system which could be worth $10 billion to high-tech contractors.
\nUS VISIT is “a system to collect fingerprints and photographs from
\nmillions of visitors entering and exiting the United States every year.
\nSuch biometric identifiers will be used to verify visitors’ identities and
\ncompare them to lists of HREF=”http:\/\/www.opendna.com\/blog\/2003_11_09_blog1_archive.html#106845520660383
\n700”>suspected<\/a>
\nor known<\/p>\n

terrorists<\/p>\n

<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\nI personally think Computer Sciences Corporation is the best candidate.<\/p>\n

[DISCLAIMER: J-Mac bought stock in CSC after it bought
\nDynCorp; he has a Homeland Security Pork
\nPortfolio.]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to GovExec “Homeland Security
\nintends to announce the winning firm by May 2004.”<\/p>\n

\nThis will come as surprise to anyone working for Customs & Border
\nProtection, which will use the system, as the official management line is
\nthat US VISIT will be fully operational on 05JAN2004 – fingerprints and
\nall. Government Computer News is making similar
\nnoise<\/a>: “Once we tweak any software changes, we will put out a final
\nversion in December and turn it on in January.<\/p>\n

\nThe truth is that US VISIT is supposed to bring Border Cops many of the
\nthings people imagine are already on our computer screens (I have a hunch
\nthat’s why you aren’t allowed to look at them). But if the contract hasn’t
\nalready been awarded then maybe we’re just talking about a renaming of
\nIBIS to US VISIT and forgetting about what we called SEVIS, NSEERS, APIS,
\nADIS, etc.<\/p>\n

\nMaybe this is how business is really done with the government. …er,
\nwhat? Options:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. You do the work for free and they give you an
    \nuncontested contract later – the final version of US VISIT has reportedly
    \nbeen implemented at one port and a national training program is in effect.\n<\/li>\n
  2. experience and size win out. GCN.com says Lockheed Martin, CSC and
    \nBarton & Associates previously won contract on parts of the network that
    \nmake up US VISIT and GovExec.com says that only Lockheed Martin, Accenture
    \nand CSC made the first cut. <\/li>\n
  3. Get a contract and
    \nengineer-for-job-security – if nobody else is crack-addled enough to
    \nunderstand the code you wrote, you’re a shoe-in for future contracts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n

    \n[JARGON DECODER: Interagency Border Information System (IBIS); United
    \nStates Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT);
    \nStudent and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS); National Security
    \nEntry Exit Registration System (NSEERS); Advanced Passenger Information
    \nSystem (APIS); Et Cetera (etc); What The Fuck (WTF)]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yet more evidence that things are different when you’re at the top: January comes after May, according the DHS. GovExec.com reports that the Department of Homeland Security has released a request for proposals to build US VISIT, a next-generation immigration computer system which could be worth $10 billion to high-tech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20,21,44],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-line","tag-immigration","tag-national-security","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}