The Pentagon gave control of millions of dormant IP addresses to a Florida company before former President Trump left office, The Washington Post reported.
An unknown Florida company called Global Resource Systems LLC had obtained control of 56 million Pentagon-owned IP addresses on. Jan 20 and is now nearing 175 million IP addresses.
A reporter went to the address of the company’s location, which is inside an office building, but the receptionist told the reporter she couldn’t give them any information and asked them to leave, according to The Post.
The Pentagon says the company is being used in a pilot effort to evaluate the Department of Defense’s IP address space and ensure there are no “potential vulnerabilities.”
“Defense Digital Service (DDS) authorized a pilot effort advertising DoD Internet Protocol (IP) space using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,” Brett Goldstein, Director Defense Digital Service, said in a statement emailed to The Hill.
“Additionally, this pilot may identify potential vulnerabilities,” Goldstein added.
The company only announced its obtainment of the IP addresses to Border Gateway Protocol, which is in charge of internet traffic.
Their announcement was to tell BGP that IP addresses belonging to the U.S. military were open but had to be routed through their company.
Global Resource Systems only began in September has no public website and no public federal contracts, The Post reported.
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