[HN Gopher] The communications systems at the US Central Command... ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | | > 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. | | > 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"). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-21 23:00 UTC)