The Military Aims to Develop 'Smart' & Secure WiFi

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a Network World article about a military project to create a self-configuring, secure wireless network. From the article: "Academic concepts such as artificial intelligence and Tim Berners-Lee's 'Semantic Web,' combined with technologies such as the Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), cognitive radio, and peer-to-peer networking, would provide the nuts and bolts of such a network. Although the project is intended for soldiers in the field, the resulting advances could trickle down to end users. 'Military networks are going to converge as closely as we can to civil technologies,' says Preston Marshall, the program manager of DARPA's Advanced Technology Office."

Comments

Depends on the frequency

[vinn01]

Don't assume that it is so easily jammed.

You assume that the wireless will be on a normal frequency. They could use spead spectrum or UWB. They could use light frequencies like infrared to carry the signal.

Re:Do we learn from the past?

[Snarfangel]

The technology is coming anyway, the genie is almost out of the bottle for good.

The military knows they can't stop the genie from getting out of the bottle. They just want their three wishes first. If a technology provides an advantage in even one conflict, it is usually worth it from a military standpoint.