Ole Cowboy
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Things could have changed since I retired in '94 and I would not doubt that Obama set the military back a few years.The military is basically never on the leading edge of anything. Only the lesser known divisions have the new stuff.
I was the PM (Program Manager) and the ICP (Information Class Proponent) Training Automation for the Army, most of my career was in R&D, in '85 I had a Sun Workstation on my desk with Fiber Optic network connectivity. It was my office ATIMP (Army Training & Information Management Program) that developed the Field Fiber Optic Splicing Device, I had AT&T under contract and IIRC I spent about $12M to do it. My IT budget was about $127M.
I retired in '94, went to work for a major Consulting-Accounting company that focused on the Fortune 500 and mostly worked in the Fortune 150, I was a consulting Chief Technical Officer CTO.
Like you said and I thought the military was light years behind, not what I saw at all, light years ahead, to be honest, I was shocked by how far Corp America was behind what I was used to.