Summary of the article in the Computer World :
2005 : The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) outsources
the management of
its data centers to Northrop Grumman through a 10-year,
$2.4 billion contract
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/339677/Budget_Woes_Could_Boost_Government_Offshoring?taxonomyId=10&pageNumber=>
2009: The Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission last
year audited the VITA's contract with Northrop Grumman because
of number of project delays, cost overruns and performance
problems that included other service outages.
Conclusion of the Audit ?
VITA's contract with Northrop Grumman was modified, resulting in more
stringent performance requirements and greater accountability.
The contract, however, also boosted payments to Northrop
Grumman by $105 million over nine years.
2010: Northrop Grumman apologizes for an outage that began last
Wednesday and caused 26 Virginia state
agencies to lose their Web services, some for more than a week.
In its apology, Northrop Grumman said that problems of this sort are not
unusual with large technology transformation programs.
"With this modernized system, Virginia and her citizens should find
themselves years ahead of other states with the service provided by its
IT infrastructure," the company said.
Conclusion :
So Northrop Grumman is saying, they are having more
outages/delays/cost overruns than the IBM outsourcing project in TEXAS ,
which qualifies as "YEARS AHEAD of TEXAS" ?
Anton
On 9/3/2010 11:50 AM, John McKown wrote:
More info:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183460/Northrop_Grumman_takes_blame_for_Va._IT_services_outage
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