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The Military Internet - Computer Issues, Video Gaming - Posted: 4th Dec, 2004 - 10:34pm
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The new style of war has begun
Post Date: 13th Nov, 2004 - 3:35pm / Post ID: #
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'GIG' COULD CHANGE FACE OF WARFARE
The Pentagon is building its own Internet, the military's world wide web for the wars of the future.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...05159%2C00.html
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| The bandwidth requirements seem bottomless. The military will need 40 or 50 times what it used at the height of the Iraq war last year, a Rand Corp. study estimates - enough to give front-line soldiers bandwidth equal to downloading three feature-length movies a second. The Congressional Research Service said the Army, despite plans to spend $20 billion on the problem, may wind up with a tenth of the bandwidth it needs. The Army, in its "lessons learned" report from Iraq, published in May, said "there will probably never be enough resources to establish a complete and functioning network of communications, sensors, and systems everywhere in the world." The bottleneck is already great. In Iraq, front-line commanders and troops fought frequent software freezes. "To make net-centric warfare a reality," said Tony Montemarano, the Defense Information Security Agency's bandwidth expansion chief, "we will have to precipitously enhance bandwidth." |
Very interesting the technology involved. I'm sure we'll hear more about this.
(Software freezes are not the same thing as bandwidth issues, are they?)
Post Date: 4th Dec, 2004 - 10:34pm / Post ID: #
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This is a very interesting concept. However, I don't think that they will have it established in the near future. However, if they do get it established, it could help the soldiers alot. The possible features that I list would be in the future, since thats probably when they will get the whole thing established.
If soldiers wore a special helmet, with wireless internet, the military could upload coordinates and information about the terrain, etc. which could be viewed from their goggles. Commands could also be issued via goggles, which, in stealth missions, would prove invaluable, for no sound would be used.
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