Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 16, 2009 @05:57AM from the reinventing-the-wheel dept.

DARPA has awarded a $31 million contract to megacorp Lockheed Martin which will, with some assistance from Microsoft, attempt to reinvent the Internet and make it more military-friendly. "The main thrust of the effort will be to develop a new Military Network Protocol, which will differ from old hat such as TCP/IP in that it will offer 'improved security, dynamic bandwidth allocation, and policy-based prioritization levels at the individual and unit level.' Lockheed will be partnered with Anagran, Juniper Networks, LGS Innovations, Stanford University and — of course — Microsoft in developing the MNP. Apart from that, Lockheed's own Information Systems & Global Services-Defense tentacle will work on amazing new hardware."

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The future is secure! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-16 06:03 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Hopefully they will patent MNP up the wazoo so that the open sores leech community wont be able to steal their intellectual property. Go military industrial oligarchy!
Re:Bottom line by chill · 2009-10-16 06:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait

With a military contractor, the gov't and Microsoft doing the development? I'm thinking it'll heavily tilt towards bondage, S&M, forced anal sex and some bestiality thrown in for good measure.

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