HERO STATION Harrisburg will be a state of the art governmental business center. Government agencies, defense contractors and private sector companies will be able to take advantage of a multitude of in-house  infrastructure advantages.

In addition to the exceptional facilities, prospective tenants will be able to receive specialized recruiting assistance and onsite support from our service disabled veterans recruiting service. Additional tenant benefits will include college, graduate school and technical certification classes taught in our onsite education center. State of the art teleconferencing and facilitated online education programs will also be  available.  Startup plans include connections via the following networks:

DREN-Defense Research and Engineering Network.

The Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) is DoD's recognized research and engineering network. The DREN is a robust, high-capacity, low-latency nation-wide network that provides connectivity between and among the HPCMP's geographically dispersed High Performance Computing (HPC) user sites, HPC Centers, and other networks. The DREN Wide Area Networking (WAN)capability is provided under a commercial contract. The DREN WAN service provider has built DREN as a virtual private network based on its commercial l infrastructure

SIPRNet

The SIPRNet (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) is a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up toand including information classified SECRET) by packet switching over theTCP/IP protocols in a "completely secure" environment

NIPRNet

NIPRNet (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Network) is used to exchange sensitive but unclassified information between "internal" users as well as providing users access to the Internet. NIPRNet is composed ofInternet Protocol routers owned by the United States Department of Defense (DOD). It was created by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to supersede the earlier MILNET.

JWICS

The Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS pronounced JAYwicks) is a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S.Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information by packet switching over TCP/IP in a secure environment. It is cleared up to Top Secret and SCI. It also provides services such as hypertext documents and electronic mail.