Faster is not necessarily better. Acquiring new technology is not always the right answer. As a taxpayer we ought to all be angry at this prospect. As a military concerned with C2, we should be incensed. The current billions of dollars being spent in DoD on command and control often buys redundant capability.
None are the agreed upon standard, none are tested, and none are in the formal acquisition pipeline.
It is not an issue of whether or not the AOC needs a display which accomplishes various functionality, but more one of other agencies and decision makers who have deemed that certain systems be bought without a bona fide, defined need. This type of non-standardization defeats any sensible training or logistics concept. Oh, by the way, I mentioned there are currently more than six different situation displays. Well at Roving Sands '97 I saw a newer display being demonstrated by the Space Warfare Center. Since I initially wrote this article, my squadron, the 605 Test Squadron of the C2TIC has endeavored to implement configuration control of the AOC, in that no new system should go to the field until it comes through Hurlburt Field and the C2TIC for operational testing.