Root cause analysis is a fun game. Essentially something goes wrong and you keep asking why until you get to the bottom of the pile. Unfortunately, root cause at the Department of the DTC will overflow one's stack before you get where you want to go. Why do so many of their programs fail?
Well, one likely cause is their constant parade of misinformation to the contractors. Take their joint command as one example. My source at the DTDC told me that despite all the confusion all a BMDCS needs is 1U of space in their rack for a DTDC communication system. Apparently it has the same power, space, and weight requirements of a Dell Poweredge Server 1950 III. How it communicates with Joint Command is a mystery to me and no clearer that what exactly is joint command. Is it in the sky? Is it on the moon? Is it on a time traveling island? I don't know!
Another example is their whole set of enclosure studies that Serling talked about. They also ran some disinformation saying that the enclosures included batteries. Well, once again we find that the power supply of the enclosure draws from an external power source (most likely the BMDCS generator). We all know a power supply is necessary to support power hungry servers with voltage and frequency regulation, important bypass systems and power factor corrections (for use with small generators). The enclosure power supplies protect against surges, spikes, lightning, poor frequency and voltage conditions. Of course, all that rests upon the contractors realizing that if their enclosure doesn't come with a power supply then they need to buy one. They'll catch on...eventually.
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