[HN Gopher] The communications systems at the US Central Command...
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       The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
        
       Author : intunderflow
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-10-21 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.electrospaces.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.electrospaces.net)
        
       | woodruffw wrote:
       | A bit that stood out to me:
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       | > This "Intelligence Community Desktop Environment" (IC DTE) was
       | conceived in 2012 as a single, identical platform for the US
       | Intelligence Community. As such it's the heart of a huge
       | modernization project called Intelligence Community IT Enterprise
       | (IC ITE), under which data will be stored and processed at the
       | Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) managed by the CIA and the IC
       | GovCloud managed by the NSA.
       | 
       | > The implementation of the DTE was managed by the Joint Program
       | Management Office (JPMO) led by DIA and NGA, while the software
       | system was built by BAE Systems under a $300 million contract for
       | five years.
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       | > However, in 2018, John Sherman, chief information officer of
       | the Intelligence Community, said they had come to the realization
       | that it no longer made sense to deliver a standard capability to
       | every agency and user given the differing architectures, security
       | requirements and mission needs.
       | 
       | ...so we paid BAE a third of a billion dollars to build a
       | software platform that we then threw away in less than a decade,
       | all because of an unrealistic original goal ("a single platform
       | for the US IC").
        
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