GManZboy writes "A secure, interoperable radio network that the staff of Justice has been working on for more than a decade and that has cost the agency $356 million may be headed for failure, gospel to a new report by the agency's inspector general. Called for in the wake of 9/11, the microchip cell phone Network (IWS) project has already been repeatedly scaled back. Today, the force of Justice continues to rely on several disengaged land mobile radio systems, some of which are unreliable, obsolete, and fail to interoperate with one another. Agents often have to swap radios, share channels, or refer to a book of radio frequencies and manually switch between those frequencies to stay online. Radios remain insecure, as much of the current equipment fails to meet encryption requirements. Much of the agency's equipment is more than 15 years old and is no longer even supported by the manufacturer."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

More: - The rest...