Pentagon internet mystery partially solved, but questions remain
The day before Biden took office, a shadowy company said it was now managing a huge chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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The day before Biden took office, a shadowy company said it was now managing a huge chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.
25 April 2021, 09:04 am The Pentagon finally explains why a small business in Florida was given control over 175 million IP addresses. The long-dormant IP addresses, which are about 1/25th, or almost 6% the size of the current internet, were handed over as soon as President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021. Pentagon and Florida's Mysterious Global Resource Systems Florida's Global Resource Systems LLC (GRS), a private company just outside Fort Lauderdale, announced shortly after Biden's inauguration that they have started managing an undisclosed number of unused IP address spaces owned ...
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Pentagon mystery with a Florida connection is solved. Sort of. What is a shadowy company located atop a bank in Plantation, Florida doing for the Department of Defense? Â Â This March 27, 2008 photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns. Many basic questions remain unanswered, beginning with why it chose for the task a company th...
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved By FRANK BAJAKApril 24, 2021 GMT FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns. Many basic questions remain unanswered, beginning with why it chose for the task a company that seems not to have existed until September. The company, Global Resource Sy...