The Strategic Plan for the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System was published concurrently with the passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). The ISTEA legislation was the first step in building a high tech highway system. The Interstate Highway system initiated during the Eisenhower era was declared complete. The new system, The National Highway System would include the Eisenhower Interstate system but major arterial and feeder routes to transportation hubs were also added. In addition the plans were to internationalize the system including linking highways systems with Canada and Mexico. More detail on the history can be found HERE.
The formal name for the Interstate system was Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. The original purpose was for defense of the country – to be able to move men and equipment quickly. The military purpose of the Interstate did not change with the designation of a new name and expansion to include arterial and feeder routes.
Partnership Between Law Enforcement and the Military

In 1994, Janet Reno, Attorney General and John Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense on “Operations Other Than War and Law Enforcement“. According to a report posted on the National Criminal Justice Reference System, the agreement was supposed to be for the joint development of technology.

A research report posted on the National Criminal Justice Reference System, indicated that the agreement was for joint development of technology. The title of the report is:
NCJ 164268 – February 1997
Department of Justice and Department of Defense
Joint Technology Program: Second Anniversary Report
The following is an excerpt of the report:
“In 1994 the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) entered into a cooperative agreement to develop technologies of value to both. This agreement, codified in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and signed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, formalized and focused a longstanding ad hoc relationship. To manage this technology development program and to direct its day-to-day activities, the MOU established a Joint Program Steering Group (JPSG) that would represent both departments and be staffed with members from several agencies.”
Strategic Highway Network (STRAHNET)
The following is an excerpt from the STRAHNET Guide Summary:
STRAHNET is a system of public highways that is a key deterrent in United States strategic policy. It provides defense access, continuity, and emergency capabilities for movements of personnel and equipment in both peace and war. It is 61,044 miles, including the 45,376-mile Interstate System and 15,668 miles of other important public highways.
STRAHNET Connectors (about 1,700 miles) are additional highway routes linking over 200 important military installations and ports to STRAHNET. These routes are typically used when moving personnel and equipment during a mobilization or deployment. Generally, these routes end at the port boundary or installation gate…
As the Department of Defense (DOD) designated agent for public highway matters, the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency (formerly Military Traffic Management Command Transportation Engineering Agency (MTMCTEA)) is the proponent for STRAHNET and STRAHNET Connectors. SDDCTEA identified STRAHNET and the Connector routes in coordination with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the State transportation departments, the military Services and installations, and the ports. Together, STRAHNET and the Connectors define the total minimum defense public highway network needed to support a defense emergency.
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 and the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 provided for inclusion of STRAHNET and important STRAHNET Connectors in the 160,955-mile National Highway System (NHS). The primary Connector routes for the Priority 1 and 2 installations and ports are included in the NHS. Federal oversight will ensure optimum maintenance levels for the NHS, thus assuring that the roads can support an emergency deployment. With DOD’s current emphasis on continental US-based military units, the NHS will play an increasingly important role in new deployment scenarios.

The following is an excerpt from an article adapted from a speech delivered by Federal Highway Administrator Rodney E. Slater on December 9, 1993, and from materials provided by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Program Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.

The National Highway System
Backbone of Our National Transportation Network
“On December 9, 1993, at Union Station in Washington, D.C., U.S. DOT Secretary Federico Peña and FHWA Administrator Slater announced the submission of the National Highway System (NHS) plan to Congress. Peña also outlined his principles and goals for a National Transportation System (NTS).”
“Union Station serves as a fitting backdrop for the unveiling of the National Highway System,” said Slater. “Just outside the station, Louisiana Avenue is part of the National Highway System — demonstrating how the National Highway System can provide links among the many modes that make up our transportation network. In fact, the National Highway System enhances the other modes by linking them.
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“A comprehensive National Transportation System will help us meet the challenges of the 21st century global economy by enhancing all our different modes of transportation and their links — increasing the efficiency and productivity of our nation,” Peña said.
NTS will incorporate from all the modes the most significant elements of the nation’s transportation systems. Beginning with NHS, NTS will include airports, ports, waterways, rail, intercity bus lines, pipelines, and local transit systems with regional and national impact. NTS will also include systems moving both people and freight as well as facilities owned by both private business and the public sector.
NHS is the core of the future NTS.
Slater explained NHS in detail: “The first component of the proposed National Highway System is the 45,000-mile interstate system, which accounts for nearly 30 percent of the proposed system mileage.
“The second component includes 21 congressionally designated high-priority corridors as identified in the ISTEA. These corridors total 4,500 miles.
“The third component is the non-interstate portion of the Strategic Highway Corridor Network (STRAHNET), identified by the Department of Defense in cooperation with the Department of Transportation. It totals about 15,700 miles. Based on the most recent information, including plans for base closures, these corridors and the interstate system have been identified by the Department of Defense as the most critical highway links in our transportation system. As we found during Desert Storm, highway mobility is essential to our national defense by giving us the ability to move troops and equipment to airports, to ports, to rail lines, and to other bases for rapid deployment.
“The fourth component is major Strategic Highway Corridor Network connectors. They consist of 1,900 miles of roads linking major military installations and other defense-related facilities to the STRAHNET corridors. “Collectively, these four components — all specifically required by ISTEA — account for 67,500 miles or roughly 43 percent of the proposed system.
The remainder of the proposed system — totalling 91,000 miles — is made up of other important arterial highways that serve interstate and interregional travel and that provide connections to major ports, airports, public transportation facilities, and other intermodal facilities …
“The National Highway System will also strengthen our links with Canada and Mexico, especially by providing some of the vitally needed north-south connectors. Today, even before NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) goes into effect, trucks carry about 80 percent of freight shipments between the United States and Mexico and about 60 percent of freight shipments between the United States and Canada. When NAFTA removes trade barriers next year, as well as barriers to international trucking operations, traffic on all modes should increase significantly.

“America’s economic future depends on the Nation’s capacity to invent and master new technologies. It depends upon moving ideas to the marketplace to spur growth, create new jobs, and strengthen our industrial performance.”
National Intelligent Vehicle Highway System
Program Plan
Report to Congress
“America’s economic future depends on the Nation’s capacity to invent and master new technologies. It depends upon moving ideas to the marketplace to spur growth, create new jobs, and strengthen our industrial performance. Vice President Gore has identified broad initiatives that together will restore America’s technological leadership and reinvigorate our economy. The Vice President’s technology initiative emphasizes that investing in infrastructure means more than building and repairing bridges, harbors, and highways. Today the United States faces a new series of communications, transportation, and environmental needs for the 21st century.”
The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) program is a key component in this national technology initiative. IVHS will harness emerging communications. computer, and surveillance technologies to address our most challenging surface transportation problems. Early indications are that IVHS applications can improve traffic flow in congested urban corridors, provide safer and more secure travel, reduce the harmful environmental impacts of traffic congestion, and help American travelers and businesses achieve new levels of productivity.
…. Defense Technology Conversion
The United States is the world leader in many technologies applicable to IVHS, and numerous efforts are currently underway to assess the feasibility of converting existing aerospace and defense technologies to IVHS. For example, DOT and the Department of Energy (DOE) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on August 6, 1993, that will promote the use of the defense technology expertise of DOE’s national laboratories in DOT’s IVHS program.
Discussions have also taken place between DOT and various elements of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to convert applicable defense technologies to IVHS. Potentially applicable technologies include: high-definition imaging and displays, advanced sensors (e.g., infrared, microwave, acoustic), radar/lidar technologies, simulation modeling, telecommunications, advanced software (e.g., systems control, image processing, and data infusion), artificial intelligence technologies, and vehicle robotics and location systems.
The GPS system. with its network of satellites, IS already a component of many IVHS systems. DOT has been identified to work closely with DOD to facilitate the proper implementation of GPS for civilian use, and to ensure the long-term availability of GPS as a U.S. national asset that would be available to civilian users worldwide.
The defense industry already recognizes the potential of the IVHS program, and some 50 defense organizations are members of IVHS AMERICA, including ARPA, the U.S. Tank and Automotive Command (TACOM), Martin Marietta, and Hughes Aircraft, In addition, over 20 defense community contractors are participating in the AI-IS Precursor Systems Analyses studies and ten defense contractors are involved in the development of the national IVHS system architecture. Continued utilization of the resources represented by the defense and aerospace industry will be instrumental in advancing the national IVHS program and bringing IVHS systems to deployment.”
4 Comments
kristin
Obama’s “Cash for Clunkers” I believe, was a ploy to get all non-computerized vehicles off the roads and fixed so they’d NEVER be able to be used again (they salted the engines & destroyed the chassis). It’s getting more and more difficult to get tags and permissions to drive older cars. Even for an early 1980s model, in my state, in order to be exempt from stringent pollution control certifications they need a vintage auto tag- and that special tag restricts the usage of the auto as well, to say weekends, or a specified number of miles per year- making it not possible to be used as a daily driving vehicle.
They will tax and price people out of personal car ownership: Toll roads, taxing and licensing- or making stricter laws that remove a person’s license for longer periods, or punitive fines higher and higher for moving violations. They want all computerized cars that will “talk” to intersections AND other automobiles on the road – this is gushed about in the SMART highways site. This is so they can stop you dead in your tracks, OR worse: push your car further on in the road. What if there’s a glitch? Oops onto oncoming 18-wheeler. It could happen. Everything’s going to be automated, and everything will be “in the cloud”.
Vicky Davis
You’re right Kristin. That’s the objective. I’m only now realizing the extent to which the military is involved in this. That’s my next installment.
Peter
Cash for clunkers, knowledge nation, clever country, smart state, regionalism all came to Australia too, but not all got off the ground.
Smart meters are in Victoria. I am off the grid electrically, and staying that way.
America’s greatest scientist ever, solved and explained speed faster than light, the gravity phenomenon and how to overcome it – antigravity if you like, free non polluting energy, and how to avoid radar detection. Anti-gravity will void the need for highway trucking transport, making light of loads cheaply. Speed is only relative to a seemingly still object in space with no force acting upon it. All electrical phenomena is mechanical according to Faraday, Maxwell and Newman who first explained it in simple terms.
For over thirty years he tried to get the American government to embrace his findings. They repudiated it. It did not fit into the sum of errant University accepted knowledge. The Universities represent the dark ages to the findings of the intellect of Joseph Westlley Newman. The lesson is you may not be advanced in knowledge ahead of the retarded University Public Fool system preserved in its own ignorance.
And so it is with America generally. Don’t buck the system.
The only piece of information the nation took from Newman, which he gave to them as a gift having been in the USAF as a young man himself, was the knowledge of how to beat radar interception. He gave them the stealth plane. Thus was born the stealth bomber which Newman would have regretted, and drones. Newman’s fix was to use a 45 degree slant on the wings to deflect the radar beam downwards or upwards or sideways but not back, like light deflects from a mirror angle – not straight back to the radar screen. Intermediate common sense really to the buffoons.
The USAF exploited only what knowledge could be used for destruction, and completely ignored the free energy he made available to humanity – that they could not charge for, or police, with their redundant, now obsolete need for smart meters – because Newman’s power is non-polluting as it comes from E = m x c squared, type mass. Early on Einstein used EL for Electricity in that formula, which later became E for Energy while encompassing electricity as energy also.
Yes, America lives by the sword, in its shadow government and puppet guise. In the shadow of whom, that is the question? For whom does the puppet America crusade, knocking out small governments for the NWO, like Hitler’s 3rd Reich in 1939. And how will America die? The answer is the way that it lived. But America is now an elderly, grey-haired, cosmopolitan, nation with its strength spent, though it does not know it. Old and frail and spent, and ready to die by the sword at the behest of its shadow casting puppeteer ruler, though long taking shape.
Two clues: Read, ‘Vietnam: Why Did We Go?” By Avro Manhattan the world’s most forbidden author. Ask yourself Why is Washington DC the head of government seated at in Virgin Mary Land in the vicinity of the Tiber River that runs into the Potomac River? Why is this Congress not seated on American sovereign soil, but on soil that faces an Egyptian Obelisk that should be destroyed as the very first act of insolence toward that cosmopolitan ‘sceptre of rulers’ in whose stronger shadow that weak shadow puppet ‘Shade’ (‘Shades’ are weaker leaders and kings of the nations) U.S. government sits – and on their foreign landlocked foreign god soil?
And not just the US, it reigns over the kings of the earth in stealth.
The radar powerless to expose it. You the people kept in the dark.
When America stands once again under a different shadow that it estranged for the current puppeteer shadow ‘sceptre of rulers’, king of Babylon and NWO emperor, it will rise again and be greater than ever, one people and not cosmopolitan, and no warmonger either as presently exploited.
That’s when its paths will be made narrow and not broadened.
Peter
Cash for clunkers, knowledge nation, clever country, smart state, regionalism all came to Australia too, but not all got off the ground.
Smart meters are in Victoria. I am off the grid electrically, and staying that way.
America’s greatest scientist ever, solved and explained speed faster than light, the gravity phenomenon and how to overcome it – antigravity if you like, free non polluting energy, and how to avoid radar detection. Anti-gravity will void the need for highway trucking transport, making light of loads cheaply. Speed is only relative to a seemingly still object in space with no force acting upon it. All electrical phenomena is mechanical according to Faraday, Maxwell and Newman who first explained it in simple terms.
For over thirty years he tried to get the American government to embrace his findings. They repudiated it. It did not fit into the sum of errant University accepted knowledge. The Universities represent the dark ages to the findings of the intellect of Joseph Westlley Newman. The lesson is you may not be advanced in knowledge ahead of the retarded University Public Fool system preserved in its own ignorance.
And so it is with America generally. Don’t buck the system.
The only piece of information the nation took from Newman, which he gave to them as a gift having been in the USAF as a young man himself, was the knowledge of how to beat radar interception. He gave them the stealth plane. Thus was born the stealth bomber which Newman would have regretted, and drones. Newman’s fix was to use a 45 degree slant on the wings to deflect the radar beam downwards or upwards or sideways but not back, like light deflects from a mirror angle – not straight back to the radar screen. Intermediate common sense really to the buffoons.
The USAF exploited only what knowledge could be used for destruction, and completely ignored the free energy he made available to humanity – that they could not charge for, or police, with their redundant, now obsolete need for smart meters – because Newman’s power is non-polluting as it comes from E = m x c squared, type mass. Early on Einstein used EL for Electricity in that formula, which later became E for Energy while encompassing electricity as energy also.
Yes, America lives by the sword, in its shadow government and puppet guise. In the shadow of whom, that is the question? For whom does the puppet America crusade, knocking out small governments for the NWO, like Hitler’s 3rd Reich in 1939. And how will America die? The answer is the way that it lived. But America is now an elderly, grey-haired, cosmopolitan, nation with its strength spent, though it does not know it. Old and frail and spent, and ready to die by the sword at the behest of its shadow casting puppeteer ruler, though long taking shape.
Two clues: Read, ‘Vietnam: Why Did We Go?” By Avro Manhattan the world’s most forbidden author. Ask yourself Why is Washington DC the head of government and Pentagon seated in Virgin Mary Land in the vicinity of the Tiber River that runs into the Potomac River? Why is this Congress not seated on American sovereign soil, but on soil that faces an Egyptian Obelisk that should be destroyed as the very first act of insolence toward that cosmopolitan ‘sceptre of rulers’ in whose stronger shadow that weak shadow puppet ‘Shade’ (‘Shades’ are weaker leaders and kings of the nations) U.S. government sits – and on their foreign landlocked foreign god soil?
And not just the US, it reigns over the kings of the earth in stealth.
The radar powerless to expose it. You the people kept in the dark.
When America stands once again under a different shadow that it estranged for the current puppeteer shadow ‘sceptre of rulers’, king of Babylon and NWO emperor, it will rise again and be greater than ever, one people and not cosmopolitan, and no warmonger either as presently exploited.l
That’s when its paths will be made narrow and not broadened.