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Once touted the as centerpiece of the National Counterterrorism Center's efforts to upgrade the government's terrorist watch list, Railhead program floundering after contractor turf battles over using an Oracle relational database or an Extensible Markup Language model. House Science and Technology Committee's Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee also faults program management and oversight by National Counterterrorism Center officials. Rep. Brad Miller calls Railhead on the brink of collapse after a $500 million investment of taxpayer dollars.
- The U.S. House of Representatives is investigating what it calls the technical failure and mismanagement of one of the government's top counterterrorism programs. Dubbed quot;Railhead, quot; the program was intended to upgrade the U.S. terrorist watch list and improve the integration of U.S. terror...

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