DARPA's playing around with the Series of Pipes again

[destrekor]

DARPA+Lockheed+Microsoft
= SkyNet groundwork

10 years from now, DARPA enlists Google, and "What is the purpose of life" is the first SkyNet Search, we then procede to fold our hand and say "Good game humans".



Awesome concept and about damn time.
I'm even more excited to be in the Signal Corps right now. Honestly really excited about my PL position in hopefully just a little more than a year from now. If I stick around for a career I'll have a damn good chance at seeing quite a few awesome new communications advancements, and new gadgets.
TCP/IP Next? Awesome to see these kinds of things get dug into and see what can be improved. I've been saying for awhile discrete state-sponsored Cyber Warfare is going to be a more pressing issue in the coming decades, and looks like DARPA is considering the same possibility.

 

[yhelothar]

So M$ is gonna be designing the artificial brains of our defense? schweeet.
but seriously, what is it for? Is this gonna end up being the internet 2.0 like how the original internet was built for the military?

 

[MikeMike]

 

[RoloMather]

Greeting humans.

 

[destrekor]

So M$ is gonna be designing the artificial brains of our defense? schweeet.
but seriously, what is it for? Is this gonna end up being the internet 2.0 like how the original internet was built for the military?

From what I can make of the description (and again, this being a DARPA project, most good information is not going to be released to the public), it sounds like it's more of an internet protocol update to enable military lines continued access to the pipes for communication between units, in essence a way to ensure the internet lines cannot be crippled by hacking.

With so much of the future military communication equipment based on IP communications, it is quite understandable to have a desire to bulletproof the network.
How they'll go about doing this is just something I cannot wrap my head around, but try describing how awesome TCP/IP is to somehow as if it were just being invented (i.e. internet does not exist yet). DARPA is trying to make some seriously insane advances in communications, so that's just awesome and I'm not going to bother attempting to figure it out until it's been implemented.

But yes, in a way it could be argued this is true Internet 2.0 since it sounds like it might be a brand new version of the protocol stacks.
The current "Internet 2" is just a more advanced hardware network between research institutions, it's still entirely based on current protocols.