Category Archives: Contractors & Vendors

Cyberdefense and Information Assurance, Joint Combatant Commands, Unisys

Joint Forces Command to test new network encryption

Joint Forces Command has contracted with Unisys to test the company’s Stealth encryption technology, which uses an algortithm to not only encrypt content travelling across the network but also break data into pieces and route it seperately, making it impossible to reconstruct documents and data by intercepting a single data stream with a network sniffer.

This would allow the DOD to transmit classified and sensitive data over its unclassified networks and the public Internet, without fear of compromise.  Classified data currently is restricted to the Secret Internet Protocol Routed Network (SIPRNet), the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) t0p-secret network, and a collection of private encrypted terrestrial, satellite and wireless networks.

Defense systems reports:

“The government spends a considerable amount of money on these networks, and they’ve been looking for years for a way to combine them,” said David Gardiner, vice president of security technology and solutions at Unisys, which is deploying its Stealth technology under a one-year JFCOM contract.

via Joint Forces Command to test new network encryption — Defense Systems.

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Contractors & Vendors, Lockheed Martin, Sensors

Lockheed Flying Intel Lab gets cleared for takeoff

Lockheed Martin's Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory

Lockheed Martin's AML

Lockheed Martin’s Airborne Intelligence Test Bed has completed its maiden flight, getting an air-worthiness certificate from the FAA.  The Airborn Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML – a name clearly sculpted to avoid the AIL label) is a reconfigured Gulfstream III business jet loaded with sensors and computing equipment.

The AML has an ample radome on the bottom of the aircraft that can be crammed with various sensors and data links. “We’ve designed the AML so that we can easily test a myriad of sensors to advance the science and art of correlating diverse types of intelligence – with the goal of rapidly providing high-quality data,” said Jim Quinn, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services-Defense’s vice president of C4ISR Systems, in a company statement.

Because of its reconfigurable, “plug and play” architecture for sensors and computing systems, the AML can be used for a variety of evaluations at the same time. The aircraft is currently slated to participate in the C4ISR On-The-Move exercise at Ft. Dix in New Jersey at the end of August.

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