Washington, July 9 (ANI): The Distributed Common Ground System, the US Army's 2.7 billion dollars computing system that was designed to share intelligence with troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, has proved to be a bit of a dud because 'it doesn't work' properly, analysts have said.
The Army system, also known as DCGS-A, is a cloud-based computing network that is designed to help analysts collect information from multiple sources and deliver it quickly to the battlefield commanders.
For example, if a unit is tracking an insurgent, the system would help a commander to gather information about that individual, and figure out his activities or whereabouts.
However, analysts believe that the DCGS-A was unable to perform simple analytical tasks in the past, and complained that its search tool made finding the information difficult. They also said that the software that is used to map the information was not compatible with the search software.
"You couldn't share the data," Politico quoted a former Army intelligence officer who worked in Afghanistan and Iraq, as saying.
They also detailed problems with the hardware, insisting that the system is vulnerable because it is prone to crashes and faces dangers of going off-line frequently.
"The laptops are turned on, but it doesn't work. There's a lot of bugs in the workflow," another former officer said. (ANI)
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