Released: September 03, 2008

Controversy snarls upgrade of terrorist data repository

Source: Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post (Free Registration)

A major effort to upgrade intelligence computers that hold the government’s master list of terrorist identities is embroiled in controversy about the project’s management and the work of contractors hired for the job, documents and interviews show.

The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, serves as the central repository of information about more than 400,000 suspected terrorists around the world. Operating at the National Counterterrorism Center, TIDE and other systems each day deliver files of information to watch-list programs that screen people traveling into the United States, or they make data available online to intelligence analysts across the government. 

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