Pentagon hands IP addresses to Florida company as part of a security pilot program SHARE The U.S. Department of Defense has given a Florida company control over about 175 million of its IP addresses as part of a security pilot program. The IP address range, registered as GRS-DoD, AS8003 became active Jan. 20 in the last minutes of the Trump administration, with several pundits suggesting that the timing may be conspiratorial in nature. The company handed the IP addresses is called Global Resource Systems LLC, a previously unknown company which the Associated Press described Saturday as “shadowy.” The IP addresses were noticed as becoming active at the time and there’s not a shortage of them — about 6% of all IPv4 addresses on the internet. That the Defense Department owns the IP addresses has long been known — it created the internet and has held the IP addresses for decades — but for much of that time, the majority had remained dormant.