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DARPA Awards Tactical Network Deal

Doug Beizer writes on GCN.com:

With the hope of being able to form networks free of fixed infrastructure, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded an 18-month contract worth $7.8 million to BAE Systems Inc.

The contract to develop the next generation in wireless tactical network protocols for the military includes an option that would extend it to 30 months at a cost of $13.3 million.

The objective of DARPA’s initiative, known as Control-Based Mobile Ad-hoc Network, is to create a new protocol for networks of autonomous mobile communication devices called mobile ad-hoc networks. Within an ad-hoc network, each node operates not only as an end system but as a router capable of forwarding traffic and forming a network free of any fixed infrastructure.

posted by Fergie @ 7/19/2006 11:58:00 AM