The White House's goal of upgrading all Defense Department networks to a next-generation Internet standard by 2008 will be "impossible" to achieve, Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Croom, the Defense Information Systems Agency director, said today. The general offered this assessment as a "personal opinion" during the question-and-answer session at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association-sponsored luncheon in Vienna, VA. "We can't get there" by 2008, Croom said, because a host of networking equipment throughout DOD must be replaced...
