[Milsurplus] Global Information Grid

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

If the BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) can be shut down so that HF will be 
usable.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

At 12:48 PM 11/13/04, Robert Nickels wrote:
>I thought this would be of interest to some here.   And when it doesn't
>work, there will always be HF radio!
>
>73, Bob W9RAN
>
>
>NEW YORK (AFP) - The Pentagon which invented the precursor to the Internet
>40 years ago, has laid the first connections for a secure, wireless
>information network that proponents say will fundamentally transform
>warfare, a US newspaper reported.
>
>Estimates are that the Global Information Grid will cost 200 billion dollars
>in the next decade alone, but take two decades to complete, the New York
>Times said.   The new network would fuse US military and intelligence
>services into a unified system and make volumes of information instantly
>available to soldiers on the battlefield, the Times said.   Every member of
>the military would have "a God's-eye view" of the battlefield, said Robert
>Stevens, chief executive of top US military contractor Lockheed Martin
>Corporation.   Proponents say it will become the most lethal weapon in the
>US arsenal and change the military and warfare the way the Internet changed
>business and culture.
>
>The system would allow "marines in a Humvee, in a faraway land, in the
>middle of a rainstorm, to open up their laptops, request imagery" from a spy
>satellite, and "get it downloaded within seconds," Peter Teets, under
>secretary of the Air Force, told Congress, according to the Times.  The
>effort faces staggering technological hurdles.  Vint Cerf, one of the
>inventors of the Internet, is now a consultant to the Pentagon on the
>project. "I want to make sure what we realize is vision and not
>hallucination," he told the Times.   "This is sort of like Star Wars, where
>the policy was, 'Let's go out and build this system,' and technology lagged
>far behind," he said. "There's nothing wrong with having ambitious goals.
>You just need to temper them with physics and reality."
>The military has twice before tried to build information networks for the
>military.
>
>The 1960s-era Worldwide Military Command and Control System often failed in
>crises. A 25-billion-dollar successor completed in 2003 is already outdated.
>Pentagon scientists invented the systems that became the Internet starting
>four decades ago but the Internet leapt forward once it emerged in the world
>of commerce a decade ago. The war net is "an attempt to catch up," Cerf
>said.  Military contractors and information-technology innovators formed a
>consortium to develop the war net on September 28, the Times said.
>The group includes Boeing, Cisco Systems, General Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard,
>Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Oracle,
>Raytheon, and Sun Microsystems.
>
>
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