Global information grid

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A soldier uses a pressure washer to remove ice and snow from a satellite antenna at the US Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan
An Air Force
soldier assembles a PSC-5 tactical satellite radio at Fairford, UK Air Force Base

The Global Information Grid is a concept for a global information network of the Pentagon . It is intended to enable Network Centric Warfare on a global scale. This would give the United States Armed Forces a single, all-encompassing, integrated broadband information network.

concept

Every soldier and every combat unit should have all relevant information available at any place, at any time, under all weather conditions. The accumulated information from all other units would be merged and processed so that the data collected by one unit (soldier, weapon platform, sensor) could be used for all other units (including the C 4 ISR centers; C 4 ISR: US military acronym for Command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ). For example, the data collected by a satellite should be available worldwide for all soldiers and military branches of their own and friends. This should make military operations much faster and more efficient.

Critics question the feasibility of this concept because it is too far ahead of today's technology. In particular, there was a lack of plans that would represent the required interoperability of all existing computer systems and networks.

outlook

The program is expected to be operational by 2020. Investments of 200 billion dollars are planned for the period between 2005 and 2014, more than the Manhattan project cost at the time .

Initially, 100 important locations in the continental USA, Europe and Asia / Pacific are to be connected to the military Internet at a bit rate in the order of gigabits.

In a redefinition by the Ministry of Defense in 2009, the requirements for the performance of the Global Information Grid are significantly changed by new specifications.

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