U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times today reports 'The Pentagon is building its own Internet, the military's world wide web for the wars of the future. ... The Pentagon calls the secure network the Global Information Grid, or GIG. Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build ...' Members of a consortium formed 9/28 include Boeing; Cisco Systems; Factiva (Dow Jones and Reuters); General Dynamics; Hewlett-Packard; Honeywell; I.B.M.; Lockheed Martin; Microsoft; Northrop Grumman; Oracle; Raytheon; and Sun Microsystems."

Comments

Already exists.

[Hobart]

What the slashdot headline seems to be describing:

Wikipedia article on SIPRNET

The government's page on it

What the actual article seems to be referring to:

http://ges.dod.mil

Re:no spam

[Mikail]

No, actually it is "hooah" in the Army. It was originally short for "Heard, Understood and Acknowledged."