AT&T, Northrop Grumman Jointly Developing 5G DOD Network

AT&T and Northrop Grumman are joining on R&D into a 5G-based open-architecture offering that will connect a wide array of DOD distributed sensors and data, AT&T said Tuesday. Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden at an Axios event Tuesday said the DOD's current architecture is numerous siloed platforms never designed to inter-communicate, and the joint work with AT&T is to create means for connecting them and allowing them to interface. She said there should be a prototype within a year, but implementation could take years.