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Retired DIA Director sez war fighting network 'DCGS' is a flop, must be ditched.
2016-03-21
[Wash Times] An Army general who reached the pinnacle of military intelligence says his service's war-deployed data analytical network is a flop and needs to be stopped, rebuilt and renamed.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who headed the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency until 2014 and held a number of terrorist-hunting jobs, is the most senior officer to publicly chastise the Army for how it has clung to the Distributed Common Ground System, or DCGS.

In doing so, Mr. Flynn sides with a number of field commanders who have written blistering internal criticisms of DCGS. Intelligence officers found it slow and susceptible to crashes. During the height of the Afghanistan War, some soldiers parked the hardware off to the side and relied on commercially available Web-linked computers.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  No.
Posted by: KBK   2016-03-21 22:25  

#7  Were those field expedients as secure as Hillary Clinton's bathroom set up?
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-03-21 21:30  

#6  How about recalling all the medals handed out to the past Program Managers too?
Posted by: Procopius2k

A good place to start P2k, but it goes all the way up to the Army G2, possibly higher.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-03-21 13:19  

#5  commercially available Web-linked computers

Field expediency: pigs, coke cans and homebuilt Access databases.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-03-21 12:08  

#4  How about recalling all the medals handed out to the past Program Managers too?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-21 09:17  

#3  Too big to fail. The 'Dristributed Common Ground Station' (DCGS) is the F-35 of the DoD Intelligence Community. No, on second thought, DCGS is probably worse. At least pilots are willing to FLY the F-35.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-03-21 03:26  

#2  An Elephant; a Mouse built to government specifications. — Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-21 03:14  

#1  During the height of the Afghanistan War, some soldiers parked the hardware off to the side and relied on commercially available Web-linked computers.

And thankfully, still do 'park the hardware.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-03-21 02:42  

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