The research and development effort went way over budget, the first couple rounds of production were fraught with difficulty, and the platform itself has design issues from being a “one-size-fits-all” compromise (despite also having variants for each service).
I haven’t heard anything particularly bad about the software effort, other than the difficulties they had making the VR/AR helmet work (the component never made it to production afaik).
This program was a complete and total boondoggle. It was entirely the wrong thing to build in peace time. It was a moonshoot for no reason other than to mollify bored generals and greedy congresspeople.
I haven’t heard anything particularly bad about the software effort, other than the difficulties they had making the VR/AR helmet work (the component never made it to production afaik).