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GI's say Army's battlefield intelligence network is a life-threatening disaster
[Washington Times] An internal memo from the U.S. command in Afghanistan says soldiers are voicing strong complaints about the Army's battlefield intelligence network, for which Congress just slashed spending by 60 percent. Same complaints voiced by Marines and SOF for the past few years. The $28 billion Distributed Common Ground System [DCGS] is too slow and unstable [not soldier or Marine friendly] and hurts operations in some cases, say intelligence officers who rely on the computer network to collect and quickly dispense data on hard-to-find insurgents and the homemade bombs they plant. Some of the more charitable comments I've heard regarding DCGS. The Army is once again 'stuck on stupid' with a contractor heavy, proprietary piece of crap that warfighters don't like. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-11 |
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