Virginia embodies how to royally foul-up an IT outsourcing project

Outsourcing Virginia's IT operations to Northrop Grumman was supposed to put the state's network beyond politics, overhaul and standardize it and improve operations, but the effort has failed in almost every respect. The $2 billion, 10-year contract with Northrop Grumman calls for a network overhaul -- or transformation as the state calls it -is months behind scheduled despite repeated deadline extensions.

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