Britain's MI5 scratches new digital RM system.

• Position: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Brief article

MI5, Britain's top intelligence agency, abandoned its multi-million dollar IT project that would have integrated intelligence data and analysis across all the government departments that feed into the agency. The project goal was to make the agency better equipped to deal with new global security threats.

The new system would have pulled together intelligence gathering and searches of paper archives using the latest digital technology by the beginning of the 2012 Olympics in London. Despite the adding of IT experts and the hiring of a team of expensive consultants, the project floundered, leaving the agency with its outdated system. The Inquirer reported that earlier...