[MtnClimber]

It may be a good plan if there are backups in case you get hacked.

[foundedonpurpose]

Aren’t they already armed and nervous?

[Anti-Bubba182]

All that stuff works both ways. If it can be hacked, it will be.

[Squidpup]

“cephapoloidal”- my new favorite word!

[TADSLOS]

[Moonman62]

It’s all fun and games until it becomes self aware.

[rbg81]

Not a lot of details here. Some ways good, some ways bad. Connecting everything also makes it easier to access everything. Not good if someone w/o a need to know gets in the System.

[Da Coyote]

Hope they EMP proof all those electronics.
And, of course, they won’t.

[PAR35]

Is it smart enough to keep destroyers from colliding with large merchant ships?

[Fungi]

Sounds like information overload. One can only absorb, pay attention, and do so many things at once. A lot of people cannot even talk on the phone and walk simultaneously. Has the army figured that out?

[Seruzawa]

All pie-in-the-sky to justify billions and billions of dollars thrown to contractors. Who would design a neural networks that large? Who would write the code? How do all those millions of seperate systems get integrated?

It sounds like gold-plated bullshyt. But good for retiring General Staff and SESes. After all the military was entirely corrupted with perfumed princes fully in charge thanks to Obama. These guys couldn’t lead a rifle squad.

They’d be better off spending the money on lookouts for the Navy.

[Redcitizen]

“U.S. military to become ‘giant armed nervous system’

Give it some extra caffeinated coffee and arm the nukes.

[Salvavida]

Oh great. We can't even identify the enemy properly. Now we'll become a hackable nervous system, that is even more vulnerable to anti-satellite warfare.

[lefty-lie-spy]

This has been going on since the beginning of warfare, the technologies to integrate everyone just keep changing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Nervous in the service

[wastedyears]

What could possibly go wrong...

[LegendHasIt]

JAG will probably be able to over-ride each individual ‘soldier’ being able to fire his weapon.

And yeah, Skynet was the first thing I thought of too.

[IndispensableDestiny]

This is what the Army was to become under Future Combat Systems. It died under it's own weight and reliance on external programs with big problems of their own (think JTRS). Since FCS died and JTRS moved to discrete programs, the Army slowed progress toward that vision.

Plus, they can't afford it.

[grey_whiskers]

...and a single 17-year old wunderkind will hack in with just six keystrokes and take over the world.

Because the password was set to passw0rd.

[fini]

Sounds good, but we can’t even get our supply systems to talk to each other.