What’s Wrong With the Air Force’s ‘Connect Everything’ Project

NextGov: In a sharply critical report, a government watchdog has slammed the Air Force’s far-reaching plan to connect sensors on fighters, drones, ships and weapons into a single cloud-based network. According to the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, no one knows how much the thing will cost, how well it will integrate with other services, or if it will even work.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein last year directed billions of dollars to be shifted toward networking its weapons.

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