US Air Force awards $75.5M to build ad-hoc missile silo network
The US Air Force has awarded a contract to build a massive 25,000 square mile mobile ad-hoc network spanning the region of the Great Plains that houses the country's fleet of intercontinental ballistic missile silos.
The $75.5 million contract was granted to New York-based Persistent Systems, which manufactures hardware for building secure mobile ad-hoc networks, or MANETs, designed to self organize without the need for centralized hardware.
"US military bases can sprawl tens of thousands of square miles, and as it stands now, there's no dynamic, high-bandwidth way for headquarters staff to track, and reliably remain in contact with, the security personnel patrolling this vast area," said Persistent's VP of Business Development, Adrien Robenhymer.
That's something your correspondent can attest to with firsthand experience. While serving in the Army in the early 2000s, I was a Military Policeman and was responsible for patrolling lots of small, out-of-the-way places.
Such a MANET could go a long way to protecting units in the field, and making them feel a bit safer, even in relatively secure garrison environments that are still too large for classic military communications systems to cover with much reliability.
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