Lee Ferran
As hard as the military services have been working for years towards the Pentagon’s dream of an all-seeing, all-connected battle network, inside the Marine Corps it’s all looking “very aspirational at best, right now,” according to a senior Marine officer.
“Within our own service, if we’re trying to get unit A to talk to unit B in the same organization, sometimes we struggle,” said Brig. Gen. William Wilburn, Jr., currently serving as the deputy director for Combat Support at the National Security Agency. “When we have a joint exercise [and] we bring in a different service, the shortcomings are even more glaring. … It’s going to be even harder when we’re trying to talk to our coalition partners.
“So it’s a goal for the Marine Corps. We’re driving toward that goal. We’ve made some strides, but we started first making sure within our own organization that we can talk,” he said on a panel at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance summit here Tuesday.
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