[HN Gopher] US Navy successfully connects aircraft carrier to th...
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       US Navy successfully connects aircraft carrier to the cloud
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-06-18 22:03 UTC (58 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
        
       | cyberax wrote:
       | Aircraft-Carrier-as-A-Service. Looking towards that.
        
         | thelittlenag wrote:
         | The upsell on the pricing is ridiculous...
        
           | doubled112 wrote:
           | But will it only bill me for the minutes I use it?
           | 
           | Oracle will bill me for the whole ocean, I'm sure. The
           | aircraft carrier _might_ stop there.
        
         | toast0 wrote:
         | I thought I once got an email from Hurricane Electric about a
         | Carrier Networking event on the USS Hornet, although I can only
         | find references for a customer appreciation event. [1]
         | 
         | [1] https://forums.he.net/index.php?topic=1777.0
        
       | tristanb wrote:
       | "The connectivity has been enabled by Proliferated Low Earth
       | Orbit (P-LEO) satellite services - constellations of satellite
       | services that form mesh networks via optical links." - AKA
       | Starlink. In Musk, we trust, I guess. (I don't).
        
         | psunavy03 wrote:
         | Just because he acts like a total tool does not arbitrarily
         | make SpaceX not a viable defense contractor. Why can people not
         | separate Musk the (very abrasive) person from his companies?
        
       | throwup238 wrote:
       | And for the first time in 15 years the blaster worm found a new
       | computer system to infect...
       | 
       |  _> missile defense must now restart because the Remote Procedure
       | Call (RPC) Service terminated unexpectedly._
        
       | ungreased0675 wrote:
       | Sounds like they installed a Starlink/Starshield antenna and can
       | get emails now.
        
       | sillywalk wrote:
       | Apparently the F-35 logistics systems ALIS/ODIN are "in the
       | cloud".
        
       | riffic wrote:
       | Nuclear submarines have Class C networks (/24, citing Bill
       | Cheswick's last talk at the socal linux expo) in case anyone was
       | curious.
       | 
       | I assume aircraft carriers have a bigger footprint.
        
       | sam_goody wrote:
       | > The connectivity has been enabled by Proliferated Low Earth
       | Orbit (P-LEO) satellite services
       | 
       | Does this mean Starlink, or are there other competitors in this
       | space (a quick web search refers to many other companies that
       | have bid on contracts, but no details to who is actually the
       | provider)?
       | 
       | Also, I didn't follow what exactly does Oracle have to do with
       | this - they are hardly the only cloud provider, and not even the
       | one with the most government contracts?
        
         | ordu wrote:
         | "The infrastructure has been designed to be able to use a
         | variety of connectivity mechanisms, including the military's
         | SATCOM, and Starlink."
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | Per the article, Starlink and some military SATCOM systems.
         | It's apparently not tied to a specific satellite family (which
         | is a good thing).
        
       | w0z_ wrote:
       | China's satellites (Jilin-1, etc.) can essentially track things
       | across the world in seconds versus minutes (i.e. it can follow a
       | plane, or car on the street in real-time). So I'm guessing "radio
       | silence" does not affect much locational opsec at this point.
        
         | EthicalSimilar wrote:
         | It's pretty crazy the technology that's out there that we'll
         | never see / experience without working some high-level gov job.
        
       | jefurii wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
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