DOT&E: Navy canceled fielding, testing plans for ISR systems after poor performance

By Justin Katz / February 3, 2020 at 12:08 PM
Poor performance last year led the Navy to cancel fielding and testing plans for its part of a joint family of systems intended to let the services share intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, according to a new report. The Navy was planning to field the second increment of the Distributed Common Ground System to force-level ships and shore sites in five "fleet capability releases." But the service changed course after developmental and operational testing events between September 2018 and February...

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