Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control

coondoggie writes "BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality-of-service decisions. The advanced network technology is being developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization that will let data with a higher priority will be handled more expeditiously than traffic with a lower priority."

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20th century statist thinking

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This is an extreme example of 20th century anti-capitalist statism from Barack Hussein Obama's neo-communist cabinet. Why not try free competition? Why does the "government" have to have an inefficient, non-competitive monopoly on armed force? Just like the electric monopoly and government health care, these invite waste, abuse, bureaucracy, and lowlife leeches like the Iraqis who think they are "entitled" to the U.S. Army. The whole system should be replaced by privatized corporate militias responsible to the shareholders. If there is a national interest, like attacking black people after a hurricane or raping a third-world country, expedient coalitions can be formed. But this whole government army welfare thing smacks of socialism.