Spy Chief Called Silicon Valley Stooge in Army Software Civil War

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (right), who now serves as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is at the center of a vicious fight over the Army’s analysis software. Photo: DoD

This is how nasty and personal the fight over the Army’s wartime brain has become: Pentagon functionaries are now calling one of their own top generals a corporate stooge; the Army’s supposedly independent technology testers are calling for their own reports to be destroyed; and on Thursday, Congress’ top investigators demanded answers from the Defense Secretary and for all documents related to the controversy ASAP.

Under development for the better part of a decade, the $2.3 billion DCGS-A (“Distributed Common Ground System – Army”) is supposed to serve as the primary source for mining intelligence and surveillance data on the battlefield — everything from informants’ tips to satellites’ images to militants’ fingerprints. It’s designed to be the one resource that Army intel analysts can use to find links between events, build dossiers on high-level targets, and plot out enemy attacks.

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