"a heavily manual process ... a method it acknowledged occupies considerable resources and subjects it to the risk of human error"
A good candidate for AI... erm, possibly not
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) – the agency Washington relies on to implement export licensing controls to ensure sanctioned technology doesn't reach certain nations – revealed on Tuesday it's struggling to handle a massively increased workload caused by the ever-growing number of Chinese companies added to the US …
Having worked in government, it becomes abundantly clear there are two reasons that are sometime separate and sometimes combined, for antiquated bureaucratic processing.
One is deliberate under-funding buy the politician. This occurs for many reasons, none of which benefits the average person.
The second is fear of job loss by the department managers who cannot adapt to new technology.