BBN Technologies To Stabilize Milcom Connectivity

BBN Technologies has been awarded $8.9M in funding by the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the third phase of its Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) program. This latest award follows BBN’s successful completion of Phases One and Two, which resulted in a working prototype system. The primary goal of the DTN program is to develop and field network services that deliver critical information reliably, even when no end-to-end path exists through the network. Traditional TCP/IP networks rely on stable end-to-end connectivity, but terrain, weather, jamming, and movement or destruction of nodes can interrupt the path and halt the flow of message traffic. The BBN DTN system can send and receive data reliably even when no stable end-to-end paths exist. Under this latest award, BBN scientists and engineers will integrate the DTN system into fielded military networks that may combine several different types of nodes, including wireless, satellite, and vehicle-mounted. In addition, BBN will implement a longer term military application; investigate approaches to building large scale networks that self-organize in response to mission needs, and develop methods to maintain both the security and controlled availability of persistent data. More information is available at the company website — select the graphic below…