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CIO Discusses Sentinel Launch

Overhauling the FBI's technology infrastructure has been compared to changing a tire on a speeding car--it's a challenge, and an apt description for the process Chief Information Officer Zal Azmi is overseeing as he moves the Bureau into an entirely new way of managing information.
 

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