In a story released this morning, Government Executive magazine reports that a MITRE Corporation talking paper implies that the Census Bureau's hand-held computer project (Field Data Collection Automation) on which the 2010 Census depends is in serious trouble. The talking paper states that the project is quickly running out of time, and that end-to-end system testing might be seriously affected.
In response the the issues raised by the MITRE paper, the Census seems to be taking a "failure is not an option" approach, although given what is in the talking paper, I definitely think it is a possibility.
