Re:The communications systems at the US Central Command head...
by kodah on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:42PM
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Except it is working and another commenter pulled a link from the same document that describes the next iteration of the exact same project.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/show-reporter/dodiis/2018/08/14/the...
Re:The communications systems at the US Central Command head...
by woodruffw on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:07PM
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"Iteration" can mean just about anything in DoD-speak.
Barring further releases of information (or a HN reader being willing to do a little bit of leaking), I don't think anybody can confidently assert that the $300M spent on DTE will be meaningfully reused in the next "iteration."
Re:The communications systems at the US Central Command head...
by adolph on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:28PM
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> a jumbled mess of different priorities that everybody resents
Sounds par for the course. Link to Pentagon Wars:
Re:The communications systems at the US Central Command head...
by mlac on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:13AM
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I hear you, and putting the scale there was something that I wanted to check and why I commented. At that scale it’s almost like one of Google’s moon shots…
But yeah - joint programs are fraught with problems and dynamics (tragedy of the commons is one major one).
The problem isn't the amount of money itself, it's that it can't work and never will: too many stakeholders ruin normal and simple software projects, and the DoD is that at its absolute worst.
Asking all of the IC agencies to settle on something common is like asking all of the construction workers at a site to get their tools from a common toolbox: everything is going to be in there, but it's going to be a jumbled mess of different priorities that everybody resents.