whats a few quid?

[vetran]

e-Borders fiasco: Brits stung for £224m after US IT giant sues UK govt

Brit taxpayers face a £224m bill in cancellation fees after the UK government scrapped a £750m contract for a passenger-checking computer system at its borders.

The contract for the e-Borders IT project, which is supposed to scrutinize the identities of people entering the country, was signed in 2007, back when the Labour Party was in charge. However, shortly after the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition took over in 2010, the powers-that-be canceled the contract with supplier US giant Raytheon, citing long delays and a non-functioning database of terrorist suspects.

Glad my to see my tax dollars at work (SWIDT?)

[scooterscot]

Is the current government not wishing to have a free trade agreement with the US?

This is just the beginning. Years from now, what's left of British industry, will be sued into oblivion by our special friends.

[minestrone]

What are we talking about here? A database, a network and maybe a thousand terminals?

£750m?

[quackhandle]

non-functioning database of terrorist suspects.

Some CTO came in an decided to move the whole RDBMS to MongoDB?

qh

[stek]

What are we talking about here? A database, a network and maybe a thousand terminals?

£750m?

CA, endpoint registration, MQ, and money for contractor piss-ups.....