Pentagon’s FutureG Office gearing up for new prototyping effort

Pentagon seeks open-source software for 5G, 6G networks

The Defense Department will hold an online industry day for interested vendors May 7, issue a Request for Prototype Proposals in early June, and award contracts by mid-September, said Thomas Rondeau, the Pentagon’s director for “FutureG.”

Pentagon’s FutureG Office gearing up for new prototyping effort

The Defense Department is getting ready to release a request for prototype proposals as the military prepares to integrate future wireless, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities into its networks. The upcoming RPP will be for the open centralized unit distributed unit (OCUDU) project. “What Linux did for breaking open the internet and what Kubernetes did for allowing us access to cloud, we need to have the same kind of transf…