Intelsat General Corp. announced that it has been selected for an industry-government collaboration to demonstrate the viability of conducting military communications through an Internet router in space.
The Department of Defense project to test Internet routing in space (IRIS) will be managed by Intelsat General and the payload will convert to commercial use once testing has been completed. The IRIS project is one of seven projects—out of hundreds of applicants—funded and announced in fiscal 2007 as a Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) by the Department of Defense (DoD).
Intelsat is the first commercial satellite company to be awarded a JCTD program. The IRIS JCTD is a three-year program that allows the DoD to collaborate with Intelsat General and its industry team to demonstrate and assess the utility of the IRIS capability.
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