MILNET

The MILNET ( Abbreviation for Military Network; German Military Network ) is a military communications network of the U.S. armed forces. It was created in 1983 from the ARPANET. The ARPANET was originally a joint project of scientific and military facilities. From 1983, this was for security divided in two in the military MILNET and now scientific ARPANET, later developed into the Internet from the. In the transition phase, both networks were interconnected by gateways.

During the 1980s, the MILNET a worldwide system of various military networks with different security levels has been extended to the Defense Data Network. In the 1990s, the NIPRNet from the MILNET.

See also:

• Defense Switched Network ( Associated telephone network)
• Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System ( successor system of the Defense Data Networks, subnets DSNET -2 for Top Secret and DSNET -3 for Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information )
• Secret Internet Protocol Router Network ( successor system of the Defense Data Networks, Subnet DSNET -1 for information to level of secrecy Secret )

• Military information and communications technology
• Computer Networks
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency