Posted on Oct 28, 2017
Powerful tiny tanks with VR and futuristic cockpits could revolutionize the battlefield
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The FCS program was designed to fight the battle if Fulda Gap and was not well designed to fight a counter insurgency conflict I was involved, as the Deputy PM for the Army's Tactical Automated Medical Informatics System (MC4) with the Medical FCS Variant. The main problem with the FCS program and what ultimately led to its demise was the appointment of Boeing and SAIC as lead systems integrators. Case in point - the MC4 system was designed to operate on a laptop with a stand alone store and forward capability should internet communication fail. The data would be stored and then transmitted to the Clinical Data Repository upon resumption of communication. All I required was a physical cable to hook up my laptop to the FCS Medical Variant because we were a self sufficient system. The Boeing and SAIC as lead systems integrators resisted providing MC4 that cable until we spent over 15 months in interminable meetings trying to convince these geniuses that that they did not need to write their own Medical IT Software programs. I remember telling my Asst PM at one of the meetings at Boeing that these idiots are convinced they have a mandate to develop a fighter plane out of a tank.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/us-army-future-combat-systems-program-formally-terminated
https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/us-army-future-combat-systems-program-formally-terminated
US Army's Future Combat Systems Program Formally Terminated
Transitions to Army Brigade Combat Team Modernization
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Sgt Wayne Wood
I remember an instance where the contractor wanted to write their own networking protocol because IN THEIR OPINION TCP/IP WASN’T RELIABLE!!!
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