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DIA’s New Military Intelligence Platform Nearing Full Operational Capability

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 29th, 2025

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DIA’s New Military Intelligence Platform Nearing Full Operational Capability

Defense Intelligence Agency seal. Source: DIA

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s successor to its current military intelligence system continues to progress and is on track to reach full operational capability (FOC) in early 2026, the agency' lead official for the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System (MARS) said last week. The five-year old program is a major system acquisition and will replace the current 30-plus year-old manually intensive Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), which will sunset once MARS achieves FOC, Katherine Bukolt, chief of the MARS Program Management Office, told…

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