Subscription-Based National Defense?

STUPID AUTOCAD PROGRAM! Why must I purchase a new license and download another gigabyte of bloat just so you’ll do today what you did yesterday, except with my printer drivers deleted and the menus twisted around? And it’s not just ‘software as a service’ these days, it’s everything. I saw headlines that BMW tried “car seat heaters as a service”… a device that worked without a subscription just the week before, and which you wouldn’t think could be improved by adding the need for activation from a remote network server.

The usury in modern ‘Murica is off the charts.

US Army ponders “radio as a service” to keep communications up to date

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By Colin Demarest for DefenseNews, 12 December 2022

NASHVILLE, Tenn. . The U.S. Army may take a new tack to the procurement of radios, launching an “as a service” pilot that officials say can drive down costs and increase communications adaptability.

The as-a-service effort would kick off in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, according to Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo, who spoke last week at the Army’s Technical Exchange Meeting 9 in Nashville, Tennessee. Under the model, the service contracts with a vendor who provides .a minimal number of radios for training,. centrally stores or leases radios for operations and would “upgrade software as required,. he said.

You know what the problem is with American national defense? Not enough globalist middlemen gatekeeping our national security efforts. /sarc

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Gabriel Omar Camarillo is an American attorney who has served as the 35th under secretary of the Army in the Biden administration since February 8, 2022. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower & Reserve Affairs) from 2015 to 2017 during the Obama administration.

He was never even military?! Not even a puke of a Navy JAG?

After graduating from law school, he was a litigation associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld from 2002 to 2005. He was an associate at the Sutton Law Firm in San Francisco from 2004 to 2009 and at the Kaufman Legal Group in Los Angeles from 2009 to 2010. Camarillo joined the United States Army as a civilian employee in 2010…

From December 15, 2015, to January 22, 2017, he served as assistant secretary of the Air Force (manpower & reserve affairs).

Heehee, what happened to all those Obama drones in January 2017?

Camarillo then joined McKinsey & Company as a senior advisor. In 2017, he joined the Science Applications International Corporation.

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McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and largest of the “Big Three” management consultancies (MBB), the world’s three largest strategy consulting firms by revenue. The firm mainly focuses on the finances and operations of their clients.

TL;DR Camarillo is a Jesuit-trained litigation lawyer who is completely ignorant about how a military functions… specifically, the military he’s now in charge of… and wintered through the Trump Interregnum as a management consultant for the scum of the earth. That’s exactly the sort of middle-management fool who would think that national defense could only be improved by rent-seeking parasitism.

And when I say ‘scum of the earth’…

The firm has been associated with a number of notable scandals including the collapse of Enron in 2001, 2007.2008 financial crisis, and facilitating state capture in South Africa. It has also drawn controversy for involvement with Purdue Pharma, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and authoritarian regimes. In February 2021, McKinsey paid $600 million to settle investigations into its role in promoting sales of OxyContin and fueling the greater opioid epidemic.

…I mean that ‘Phase Two Of Military Preparedness For the 21st Century’ will be forcibly addicting the enlisted to painkillers. Science applications, baby!

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The approach differs from the service’s traditional approach of buying and maintaining radios, which can be hamstrung by hardware limitations. Instead, it’s more similar to the subscription model offered by some makers of consumer products and mirrors as-a-service deals in which companies furnish goods or services on a rolling basis and keeps them operating and up to date. The thinking initially encompassed software and information technology, but has since expanded to a wider range of wares.

“Does it work when I push the button?”

“No, it works when you pay the rent.”

The idea is preceded by a “need to experiment with different buying models, especially for our capabilities in which technology trends do not support the serial process of defining a requirement, entering a development phase and then pursuing a continuous fielding process of that exact same version of a capability over a long period of time,. Camarillo said.

The idea is preceded by Camarillo enjoying six years of sinecure with Goldfinger & Simps.

The Army has some 350,000 radios . a stockpile too massive to quickly and cost-effectively modernize, given looming security deadlines and competition with China and Russia.

Those are bullshit reasons. Granted that Army procurement is troublesome at the best of times, it will NOT be improved by ADDING COMPLEXITY. Most of those radios can be ‘updated’ just by grabbing off-the-shelf tech then soldering a crypto chip into it.

Science fiction regularly assumes that ‘military tech’ is a synonym for cutting-edge, state-of-the-art technology. That’s why it’s categorized as fiction. In real life, the military’s idea of advanced technology is whether it still works after you leave it in a bucket of muddy ice water for a week then use it for a backstop at the firing range. Bonus if it can be fixed with a hammer, superglue and/or dropping it on a hard surface.

The two technologically savvy world powers employ sophisticated signals intelligence and electronic warfare capabilities, which can put in harm’s way U.S. soldiers relying on outdated lines of communication. The Russia-Ukraine war has proven the need for more-insulated networks as well as the dangers posed by indiscriminate cell phone use to relay battlefield information, defense officials said earlier this year.

More bullshit. From the American perspective, the Russia-Ukraine war has proven only that the USA needs the Monroe Doctrine more than ever.

Russia isn’t winning 404 with super-advanced satellite telecommunications and Neato Rockets. It’s winning with 1. artillery, 2. ethnic/cultural solidarity with the “conquered” regions and 3. not being infested with Jews.

Network modernization is among the Army’s top priorities, and intimately ties into the Pentagon’s push for a wholly connected miltary, known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control.

One hopes that their modernization will include spell-check.

While the as-a-service model could jeopardize the Army’s ability to surge radios in the event of a large-scale fight, the potential cost savings, flexibility and software upgrades are .a really compelling reason. to experiment with it, Camarillo said.

[Ass-kissing] Army Lt. Gen. John Morrison, deputy chief of staff, G-6, backed what the undersecretary said at the conference, warning that .whatever we build today, 20 years from now, it better not be in the force because it will be so antiquated. We won’t be able to use it.. An as-a-service arrangement could prove less stagnant.

Why wait twenty years for obsolescence? With radio-as-a-service subscription, your equipment will be obsolete the day after you miss a payment. Just ask Autodesk how much mercy they have for customers who won’t regularly pay for updates on a per user, per device basis.

.It is ironic to me that we would actually come up with any IT program where we think we’re going to be fielding the same capability for decades,. Morrison said.

It’s ironic to me that he would create an IT program in order to justify improving the IT program.

The Army is seeking input from industry about the as-a-service pilot as well as what, exactly, companies can provide to meet requirements for a low-cost, single-channel, secure-but-unclassified radio.

The feedback, provided via requests for information published earlier this month, will shape how the Army proceeds.

Army: “We are seeking input on the idea of military-as-a-service.”

GunnerQ: “Okay! It’s total bullsh…”

Army: “…from the vendors who stand to reap incredible profits from the new business model.”

The Army this spring selected two companies, L3Harris Technologies and Thales Defense and Security, to furnish voice and data radios as part of its combat net radio modernization program. The arrangement is worth as much as $6.1 billion.

Thales’ globalist parent company got hacked and ransomware’d last month. I won’t snark about their communications being unreliable, but I will snark that making equipment that needs regular updates will make them vulnerable to such attacks.

In fact, obsolescence and noncompatibility are two of the best defenses against malware attacks. Uniform standards and mandatory integration are what gave Microsoft Outlook the nickname of ‘Virus Transfer Protocol’ among… former drinking buddies of my past’s vague acquaintance. Who were probably just talking smack.

By contrast, nobody makes malware for OS2/warp.

More than 1,100 radios, including those to be used for quality checks and preliminary testing, had been ordered as of April, according to the Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical. L3Harris secured $20.6 million of the initial order. Thales got $18.2 million.

The program, the Army said, supports Pentagon and National Security Agency cryptographic goals as well as the service’s unified network strategy.

I want to be happy that the military that will try to kill me in a few years, is being this badly mismanaged. The problem is that a globalist priority is disarming the nations of the world in favor of what they call the ‘global security state’. The idea is that when they complete the world government, there will be no need for defense from foreign powers because there will be no foreign powers. Thus, the future government’s “defense” will be security against “criminals and terrorists”.

Or as Mussolini put it, “Everything Within the State, Nothing Against the State, Nothing Outside the State.” You won’t need an army once there’s nothing outside the State anymore.