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The DARPA ContractSAIC was awarded a $7 million (30-month period of performance) contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the end of 1999, associated with Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 99-23, "Regional Partnership and Consortia for the Next Generation Internet." The project's two primary objectives are:
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) offers revolutionary new possibilities for regional collaboration. NGI bandwidth and latency advancements will enable collaborative teams to achieve quantum leaps in synergy - becoming integrated virtual organizations that exceed the sum of their parts. But high performance inter-connectivity is not enough. Application integration and privacy assurance issues remain barriers to "information superconductivity". Traditional security methods control the flow of information in ways that degrade performance. To meet bandwidth, latency, and security requirements simultaneously, the Next Generation Internet will require compatible Next Generation Virtual Private Network (NG-VPN) technology. Applications development is focused on healthcare in this project, specifically applications that require the sharing of large medical images in a collaborative environment. The integration of NGI-VPN technology with our medical applications will advance the concept of a HUBS "Smart Region."
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