The Pentagon’s massive, and enormously expensive Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), an information sharing computer system, has a long, troubled history of failure. The Pentagon insists it’s gotten much better though, and has been trumpeting it for “saving lives.”
Just don’t ask them to prove it. Several years and $5 billion later, the Army has announced DCGS is going to be withdrawn from a planned testing exercise later this year because of “continued significant software incident reports” and “overall network operational reliability issues.”
In layman’s terms, it doesn’t work. In 2011, we reported that the system, then only $2.7 billion worth, was not meeting its goals, crashed all the time, and didn’t work very well when it didn’t crash.
Three years, and another $2.3 billion have come and gone, and it is clear that months of Pentagon statements cheering the system were only another example of lies to justify the wasted money on a system that is so buggy they dare not even put it to a serious test, because it just won’t work.
Good.
So which corrupt company got 5 billion to produce some piece of crap? With this and the F-35 lemon, one just wonders, does anyone ever get to go to jail for defrauding the US taxpayer?
Lockheed of course but otherwise a range of companies. This system has many components, it is not a "$5 Billion Computer" rather than a distributed network of gear, lots of it flying with the communication network and backend processing to make it work (or not). Clearly something that can only be imagined to be buuldable in one step in the era of forever cheap money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Common_G…
I´d suggest the Pentagon outsource to India, they could surely produce a superior computer at a fraction of the cost,which performs according to specification.
Personal experience says no.
I'm surprised they didn't just adopt the junk formerly known as PeopleSoft. If you want something that doesn't work in any field, that's the usual way these corrupt deals go.