DISA's Star Trek Communicators
By
Bob Brewin
One of the most tantalizing lines buried in the <a href=http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2011/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PARTS/DISA_FY11.pdf>fiscal 2011 budget request for the Defense Information Systems Agency</a> is a $102.8 million single item for a Senior Leadership Enterprise communications system.
One of the most tantalizing lines buried in the fiscal 2011 budget request for the Defense Information Systems Agency is a $102.8 million single item for a Senior Leadership Enterprise communications system.
The DISA budget says the system supports "National Leadership Command Capabilities and is classified."
Darn. So I can only speculate that DISA has somehow developed a secret gizmo much like the Star Trek Communicator ,which, when you get down to it, looks much like a 21st century cell phone.
Of course, Senior Leaders need encrypted phones, so maybe DISA will supply them all with secret decoder rings used as premiums to kids by Ovatltine (a beverage I loathe) in the 1930s and 1940s.
Anyone care to enlighten me as to the real components of the Senior Leader Enterprise system?
