Lawmaker: Troubled Army intelligence system down during Kunduz hospital attack - Middle East
Lawmaker: Troubled Army intelligence system down during Kunduz hospital attack - Middle East Wednesday October 21 st , 2015 at 8:47 AM Stars And Stripes News (Extended) 1 Share WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army's $5 billion intelligence network, designed to give commanders battlefield awareness but criticized for years as a boondoggle , was not working in Afghanistan during the recent American air attack on a hospital, according to a member of Congress in touch with military whistleblowers. Significant elements of the Distributed Common Ground System , a network of computers and sensors designed to knit together disparate strands of intelligence, were offline in Afghanistan when U.S. commanders approved an air strike Oct. 3 that killed 22 staff, patients and others at a Doctors without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Rep. Duncan Hunter wrote Tuesday to Defense Secretary Ash Carter. "The purpose of DCGS is to enable commanders and service membe