DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP • The Register — This development is flying under the radar as it were.
Arms globocorp Lockheed Martin announced today that it has won a $31m contract from the famous Pentagon crazy-ideas bureau, DARPA, to reinvent the internet and make it more suitable for military use. Microsoft will also be involved in the effort.
The main thrust of the effort will be to develop a new Military Network Protocol, which will differ from old hat such as TCP/IP in that it will offer “improved security, dynamic bandwidth allocation, and policy-based prioritization levels at the individual and unit level”.
Found by Anthony Fox.
Microsoft? So the current Internet will not be upgradeable.
DARPA knows it’s stuff, whether you like em or not.
However, what I see is multiple generals demanding bandwidth at the same time for “high-priority” discussions and stepping on each other with a big hissy fit.
I think what they really need is for routing to have a redo — with multiple levels of routers for each type of traffic, separate from basic tcp/ip. Or increase overall bandwidth with massive redundant pipes — why don’t all primary core routers these days have 16 core processors and 64 linked gigabyte connections?
Or perhaps they do and I’m just not paying attention.
How does a firm of mostly aerospace engineers, automatically qualify as the perfect candidate for a data security and information system programming job? I mean, hello! There’s nothing aeronautical about this job. So they’ll have to start hiring programmers, they never employed before. And just about any firm could do that. But naturally, the military favors one of its own. So Lockheed Martin gets the job. Maybe because their F22 Raptor isn’t going to get approved. Got to get their major stockholders rich, somehow.
Dvorak,
do you know that in Portugal (where you´ve been recently) there´s a 1Gb internet link for private users?
1st country in the world they saying.
it´s available in Korea and Japan but for business only.
check it out
23, DARPA and the U.S. Army invented the Internet. Educational institutions came along later. The original purpose was to find ways to communicate when the head of one’s own snake got chopped off so that a combat mission wasn’t in danger or had to be scrapped.
It’s my understanding they were thinking of nodal communication sometime in the 1950s but didn’t start formally developing things until starting in the mid or late 60s to early 70s.
23, Forgot to say that Lockheed is probably not composed of mostly Aerospace Engineers.
Yes they are an Aerospace company like Boeing and Northrup Grumman, but they employ many Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineers as well (who more than likely dwarf the number of people who are formally Aerospace Engineers).