26 July 2014 (00:11 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Ramadan 1435/04 Mordad 1393/30 Xin-Wei 4712

It’s called Distributed Common Ground System-A (DCGS-A).  It’s supposed to integrate various electronic sources, biometric (human traits) data, spy satellites and other sources to spy on the enemy (you).  So far taxpayers have forked over $5-billion USD developing it!

Now some in the Army say it’s a failure, and “not survivable” on the battle field.  The Army even cancelled the planned 2014 testing of the system in Texas and New Mexcio, due to repeated “glitches”.

However, Army officers are pushing Congress to keep funding the project, because of the exponential increase in electronic intelligence that can be gathered: “A company commander today with DCGS-A has 20 times the capability I had as a division commander in 2003!”-General Raymond Odierno

A Company consists of about 100 to 200 personnel, depending on its mission.  A Division consists of 10-thousand to 18-thousand personnel!   Odinero claims that DCGS-A gives the Company commander the electronic spying power 20 times greater than what a Division commander had in 2003!

But for those U.S. citizens concerned about their privacy rights, rest easy for now, because the Associated Press got their hands on a 15 July 2014 Army memo which says the testing op in Texas and New Mexico was canceled due to continued “crashes” of the system.

U.S. Army officials claim they’ll have DCGS-A up and ready for testing in 2015,  of course after spending even more taxpayer money.