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2011-07-05 Iraq

US Army spent $2.7 billion on a battlefield computer that doesnt work

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-05 17:59|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 More detail here:

http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=004279f8-a9a9-4c18-8051-f9e1acb643ee

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http://info.publicintelligence.net/commanders_handbook.pdf

Posted by Skidmark 2011-07-05 20:37|| 2011-07-05 20:37|| Front Page Top

#2 If true, this is just sad.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-07-05 21:34|| 2011-07-05 21:34|| Front Page Top

#3 And let us not forget the USN's "$5 Billion Misunderstanding," AKA the A-12 Avenger II debacle.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2011-07-05 21:38|| 2011-07-05 21:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Not sad; the cost of war. Perhaps it should have been killed sooner, but other projects paid off well before anyone ever thought they would. You have to pay for them all. Find the senior officers who let it go on too long and end their careers. Find out if the juniors learned anything and forget it for them if they learned.

We're still human. We'll keep making the same mistakes in new flavors.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-07-05 21:41|| 2011-07-05 21:41|| Front Page Top

#5 DCGS-A is a big turd, but spending buckets of money on proprietary solution like Palantir is not the solution. This article has all the hall marks of being a planted story by someone who is angry the Army didn't buy Palantir.

Posted by Bigfoot Thud6124 2011-07-05 22:18|| 2011-07-05 22:18|| Front Page Top

#6 This article is total bullshit. DSGS-A is a good tool designed to do a hard job. Is it perfect? Probably not. Is it fair to say it doesn't work? No.

I am sick and tired of these news-people relaying some backroom gabble about how something that is good should have been great, and it would have been if only this or that company were fully funded.

It is meritorious to just put together stuff that works. Just like you, DSGS-A can be better. Let's repent on Sunday and work harder on Monday to make this system serve our soldiers.

Posted by rammer 2011-07-05 22:36|| 2011-07-05 22:36|| Front Page Top

#7 This article is total bullshit. DSGS-A is a good tool designed to do a hard job. Is it perfect? Probably not. Is it fair to say it doesn't work? No.

Woo hoo! Now that, my friends, is a a righteous rant. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-07-05 23:51|| 2011-07-05 23:51|| Front Page Top

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