Some of the technical difficulties involved responding to the external factors that hindered the programme. For example, the Department created the Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) programme in response to EU Exit which developed six new interfaces with which the DSAB systems needed to connect. In addition, the Department 19 Qq 36, 90 20 Qq 36, 104–105 21 Qq 65, 66 22 Qq 66, 84 23 Q 81 24 Q 70 25 Q 90 26 Q 31 12 Digital Services at the Border explained that it had attempted to collaborate with other departments on storing secret data before eventually accepting the need to build its own data centre.27 These were the main external factors behind the programmes eventual reset.