"More than 100 experts across the country are working on this problem 24/7" is PR-speak.
There's a pile of folks between a few contractor firms, and the staff in the offices that manage those contracts, whose current top priority is fixing whatever the issue is.
They said specifically that embassies and consulates were having problems doing biometric checks, which I would imagine requires a State system to talk to a number of other federal/intel/defense systems to do records look-ups. If we do some further supposing, that web of interconnected systems may have had some underlying issues and I could definitely see it taking some time to get each firm involved in building or maintaining those systems together to figure out where the issues are and to figure out how to fix it.
There's a pile of folks between a few contractor firms, and the staff in the offices that manage those contracts, whose current top priority is fixing whatever the issue is.
They said specifically that embassies and consulates were having problems doing biometric checks, which I would imagine requires a State system to talk to a number of other federal/intel/defense systems to do records look-ups. If we do some further supposing, that web of interconnected systems may have had some underlying issues and I could definitely see it taking some time to get each firm involved in building or maintaining those systems together to figure out where the issues are and to figure out how to fix it.