Transportation & Logistics

Transportation by its nature requires the movement of people and goods across distances. Sometimes the transportation can be faster than the speed of sound (i.e., Military aircraft) and sometimes it can be relatively slow. In either case, there can be large amounts of time when the transports are not in contact with the rest of the transportation system or has limited bandwidth to receive and transmit data.

Much of transportation is directly related to Command and Control (C2) and the more data that is held locally within a DIDO the better, however, when there is connectivity, the data requires redressing through the system (i.e., the transport vehicles and the C2 centers). It is also possible that in a distributes system that the transport vehicles could communicate with each other bypassing tradition client-server architecture. Afterall, it is most important for the vehicles to know their proximity to each other than for a centralized system to know where they are.