The Pentagon’s IT agency wants to bridge network gaps in the Pacific
THE SO WHAT
US defense is telegraphing that partner connectivity in the Pacific is now a hard constraint, not a nice-to-have. For vendors and integrators, the opportunity is in interoperable, low-bandwidth, resilient networking and data-sharing primitives that work across heterogeneous, partially denied environments.
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