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

Can't Al Gore do it again?

[AtariAmarok]

The man who said that he created the Internet while in Congress can do this one, can't he? He served in the military, after all (and no Texas ANG dodging; no throwing away of medals either!)

Cynical, But Not Necessarily Paranoid

[chaoticset]

Yeah, and once they've appropriated all the decent backbones due to "national security", there won't be a problem with people being overly informed.

Also, that pesky filesharing problem they were having will seem to just disappear...