Future Combat Systems (FCS) renamed

Also read an article in 'Nextgov' publication


Perhaps the expansion plan has never been about training troops at Fort Carson, or about traditional mechanized units. Maybe it's about real-time satellite communications with dispersed units and unmanned air and ground vehicles controlled from Colorado Springs.

One of the things you see all over the place in the Army documents is "band width" and "electro-magnetic spectrum." This is where the billions of dollars of spending are going to the defense contractors in Lamborn's and Coffman's districts. (http://www.i-a-i.com/view.asp?aid=204)

The series of I3MP antennas that have gone up at PCMS are the building blocks of this system. (There's a pretty good description of how this all fits together on pages 4-6 of the Digital Battlefield Handbook; http://www.aerospace-index.com/images/2006homeai/DBH07.pdf. This handbook also has a pretty complete listing of the defense contractors involved with various aspects of the plan.)

It should also be noted that this program is further along already at Fort Bliss. But why hasn't the DoD told the truth about why they "need" a bigger PCMS; why they continue to claim it's about the training needs of troops at Fort Carson. Because it involves new weapons that are just in the imagination phase?

Though it's all a mute point if one really looks at the facts that show there is still ample space for testing any such new system on property already owned/managed by the DoD.

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