The Defense Dept. is spending vast Billions of Dollars to functionally create their own Internet. The U.S. Army is planning an expenditure of $120b in the short-run, as described by an article in the NYTimes. What is wrong with the two previous systems of like order which were introduced? Answer: They are outdated. The last one came online in 2003. The next will come online in about 2024, and be obsolete in 2025. This is the Author's estimate.
What is wrong with the old system? It cannot do what Practitioners of Warfare have decided they wanted it to do. Does it do the job for which it was designed? Yes. Is it better than any other Information system used by any other military in the world? Yes. What is the exact problem? It lacks the Bandwidth to download a total military assessment worldwide to a laptop in the desert. The Soldier who is getting shot at is unable to find the name of the guerilla shooting at him, much less where he went to school.
There are inherent dangers in the levels of Bandwidth desired in the first place. Such width will present great ease for enemy intelligence to penetrate and corrupt. It would be extremely embarassing for an enemy computer virus to shut down the entire system on Invasiion Day. Each Soldier would need complex access keys simply to forestall the Enemy from using Computer-sharing capacity; think of the number of 'Forgot Password' which would have to be intergrated. The final element remains Security Levels: each rise in Security designation get so much more Bandwidth? The program is far too much Science Fiction with a tremendeous Pricetag, and will be outdated before it is complete.
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