Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet

US Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet
SAN JOSE, Calif. – As many as ten companies including AT&T, Cisco Systems, GE, IBM, and Intel are working with US government representatives to form a consortium to drive the so-called Industrial Internet. Their goal is to define an architectural framework for open industry standards that would serve a broad swath of market sectors from automotive and manufacturing to healthcare and the military. ... " 

And a more detailed background paper.  via Dr Shyam Sunder, Director of NIST