Can cloud computing models be used militarily?

Darpa, an agency responsible for technical research at the Pentagon, is looking for innovative ways to execute applications through the cloud, which are limited to specific uses, according to announcements on fedbizopps.gov.

So far, the cloud computing model has not been effectively applied to embedded military applications because of performance and correctness constraints, as DARPA mentions in its bulletin and says they are looking for "revolutionary" ideas to overcome these existing problems.

According to their announcements, the agency's embedded applications for cloud technology include: command and control applications on submarines, field data analysis programs used by unmanned aerial vehicles, and image data processing systems. The definition of the

Cloud is actually very vague, so if you say you want to use it for application-specific purposes, it is also possible.

But I don't know what it means.

What I know is that the generally perceived cloud is unlikely to provide the military applications needed to perform mission critical tasks, at least for the foreseeable future. The focus here is "mission critical" (Burritos unacknowledged) because:

today, most cloud technologies cannot provide as much availability as the virtualized environment, and most vendors offer three nine availability (99.9%), Other schemas can provide five or more nine availability (99.999%). The

Cloud requires a network, and the network is easily interrupted. You don't need to crack the signal to break cloud technology. As long as enough interference can make the signal ineffective.

The cloud needs the network, the network needs a lot of power, and in the course of military operation, electricity is very precious, especially in the long combat time.

If the cloud or network is compromised, your military equipment may be turned away against you.

For the military, the better cloud usage pattern is the grid cloud model. All implementation and automation behaviors are decentralized as far as possible, connecting to the High Availability Cloud command and control center. The trick here is that in the real world the wiring can be unstable or intermittent, so that the cloud-capable military devices are linked to a grid cloud, and commanders can make and change orders only when the device is connected to a cloud confirmation command.

As amazing as this pattern is, a well-known manufacturer's active cloud-cutting service SPN (Smart homeowner receptacle) has 100 million nodes connected to the grid cloud. Each node can use the security vendor's threat information when Wired. When not connected, the function is also executed. It's also more energy-efficient than a centralized cloud, and a centralized cloud needs to build a huge data center to handle as much data as a security vendor can handle every day-more than 5 billion URLs.

But when it comes to the idea of using clouds to control submarines, some of the weather-related jokes naturally appear in my mind.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)