Wednesday, December 18, 2013  Nation & World  A Q&A with the
FBI's data czar  By Chitra Ragavan Posted 6/9/05 Page 6 of 7  A:
I would say the Aerospace Report [an independent evaluation]
probably sealed it for everyone . . .  Q: Which came when?  A:
January 21st this year.  Q: So, up to then, he was pretty much
hoping that it was . . . ?  A: Everybody was, OMB was, DOJ was,
everybody was hoping, except for people who were doing software
engineering. Cause everyone was like, "Who's going to maintain
730,000 lines of code?"  Q: So where do you go from here?  A:
Oh, we have a number of strategies. . . . It's very close held,
mainly because it's procurement sensitive because we have
outlined the timeline across the technology . . . everyday, I
get asked that question, "What are you doing?" And we're sort of
tight-lipped about it. Make sure that the people have a fair
advantage when the contract goes out. But the bottom line is . .
. I don't want people to wait for the mother lode, because by
the time we get the m