Army's $2.7 billion cloud computing system does not work

By Robert Johnson
The Raw Story
Jul. 06, 2011

Half the wealth created by Facebook down the drain in one stupid government program. - ChrisThe U.S. Army's $2.7 billion dollar cloud based computer supposed to be helping troops in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn't work and may be doing more harm than good.

Several analysts told Politico that the system "...has hurt, rather than helped, efforts to fight insurgents because it doesn’t work properly"

Designed by Northrop Grumman to relay real-time intelligence to commanders from multiple sources; the system known as DCGS-A is meant to enable a battlefield officer to search for an insurgent by collecting and relaying data from multiple sources. [...]

The analysts, who asked their names not be used say it couldn't be any worse.

“Almost any commercial solution out there would be better,” the first said. And the second added: “It doesn’t work. It’s not providing the capabilities that they need.”

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