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| GI's say Army's battlefield intelligence network is a life-threatening disaster |
| 2014-02-11 |
| [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 |
| #6 Based on personal experience with other DOD apps and networks, it's likely the slowness is attributable to outside factors, like "security." Too many other agendas involved. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-02-11 10:08 |
| #5 ...so it followed the old manual model? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-02-11 08:47 |
| #4 Interesting you should say that John, as at one time, some "back end" archived production in DCGS was not available to non-DCGS users. It ingested nearly everything, but didn't always spit it back out again. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-11 07:48 |
| #3 I'm thinking the same people designed this system that designed ObamaCare. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-02-11 07:37 |
| #2 Plus the project manager is aiming at retirement, and a parallel contractor job. That's gonna leave a mark Ed, and neither she nor General Dynamics will like it ;-) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-11 07:26 |
| #1 Yeah, but it lets a staff group keep an eye on all those stupid grunts, who are probably sleeping while on patrol (I mean, they can't do anything without an officer to mind them). Plus the project manager is aiming at retirement, and a parallel contractor job. So it'll never go away. (extreme sarc off) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-02-11 07:13 |