Pentagon’s FutureG Office gearing up for new prototyping effort

Dr. Tom Rondeau, principal director for futureG for the Department of Defense, left, speaks with Cmdr. Ryan Easton, the C5I officer aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8), on the flight deck during a scheduled tour of the ship, May 2, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Micah Malala)

By Jon Harper • Apr 25, 2025

The Defense Department is getting ready to release a request for prototype proposals as the military prepares to integrate future wireless, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities into its networks.

The upcoming RPP will be for the open centralized unit distributed unit (OCUDU) project.

“What Linux did for breaking open the internet and what Kubernetes did for allowing us access to cloud, we need to have the same kind of transformative technology for wireless communications,” Tom Rondeau, head of the Pentagon’s FutureG Office, said Thursday at the AITalks conference, presented by AIScoop.