Not exactly but here’s some quotes from an article earlier this year [1]: > Goldstein described the project as one of the Defense Department's "many efforts fo

Not exactly but here’s some quotes from an article earlier this year [1]: > Goldstein described the project as one of the Defense Department's "many efforts focused on continually improving our cyber posture and defense in response to advanced persistent threats. We are partnering throughout DoD to ensure potential vulnerabilities are mitigated." > Expanding on his [Madory] point that the Defense Department may want to "scare off any would-be squatters," he wrote that "there is a vast world of fraudulent BGP routing out there. As I've documented over the years, various types of bad actors use unrouted address space to bypass blocklists in order to send spam and other types of malicious traffic." > On the Defense Department's goal of collecting "background Internet traffic for threat intelligence," Madory noted that "there is a lot of background noise that can be scooped up when announcing large ranges of IPv4 address space." [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/pentagon-explains-odd-transfer-of-175-million-ip-addresses-to-obscure-company/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/penta...