According to an official memo obtained by The Washington Times last week, the U.S. Army’s Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) (pronounced “D-Sigs”) failed a readiness test, which means the “Pentagon’s main battlefield intelligence network in Afghanistan is vulnerable to hackers” both within the military organization and from known outside enemies.
The network is doomed to be cutoff from all access to classified data files unless the defects are corrected within sixty days of the September 5 warning from U.S. command in Kabul. This, The Times reported, would mean Army intelligence professionals would be prohibited from using the system to analyze intelligence reports on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), which, in turn, would significantly deplete the utility of DCGS as a whole.
Representative Duncan Hunter (R-Cal.), a big critic of DCGS, stated:
At some point, there needs to be some realization that solutions exist to all the things that can’t be done internally. And through all of this, what’s most frustrating is that the men and women on the ground are the ones losing out, and that’s a real disservice to them and their mission.
You can read the full article by The Washington Times here.
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