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| USMC Gen. "Hoss" Cartwright says DOD infotech is in the 'Stone Age' |
| 2011-07-21 |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #3 Some things never change...when I went through USN electronics school back in '74-'75, I was trained on a reasonably up-to-date fire control radar that had all of its electronics (except for the microwave transmitting and receiving sections) as digital circuits on removable PC boards. Soooo...when I finished the training and went to the fleet I wound up on a destroyer that was, of course, equipped with the original mark/mod of this particular radar. Two words tell ya all you need to know - "Vacuum tubes." |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-07-21 16:52 |
| #2 Info systems can be upgraded, but C3 channels require security, redundancy and extreme robustness. Not that easy to do. |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-07-21 11:58 |
| #1 Oh, I wouldn't say Stone age. More like 1998 type of setups and mentality about networks. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-07-21 11:40 |