Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control 102
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coondoggie writes "BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality-of-service decisions.
The advanced network technology is being developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization that will let data with a higher priority will be handled more expeditiously than traffic with a lower priority."
Re:$11M v $42M, before anyone asks... (Score:5, Informative)
This has a lot of complicated requirements. If you scan through the pdf "DARPA's Military Networking Protocol" link in the article I don't see how this doesn't extend well beyond 3 years and $42 million. E.G. "As deliverables, performers must provide protocol implementations that replace or modify both the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for the user level devices and the Network Controllers."
Throw in the pace of defense companies move and it would be a miracle.
OK, guys... (Score:5, Informative)
The DoD is big into what they're calling "Network-Centric Warfare". US doctrine relies heavily on information dispersal and access.
This is (currently) an effort to make sure the right info gets into the right hands on the battlefield.
Re:Uhm (Score:2, Informative)
Fuck those missiles.
I believe the expression is "Damn the torpedoes!"