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ObjectSecurity has researched the particular challenges of IT integration for homeland security, anti-terror, and emergency responders (e.g. fire brigade) for a number of years, particulary focussing on how real-time communications and shared situational awareness and collaborative decision making can improve the response time and save lives. Our particular technical focus lies in central, unified security management and survivable, secure middleware in ad-hoc, lossy networks.
 SINS/MDA/OPENPMF Secure distributed application platform for crisis management
ObjectSecurity and the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) have signed an R&D subcontract to work on a project for NRL's SINS middleware for network centric warfare. The goal of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's secure middleware (SINS) and ObjectSecurity's OpenPMF policy management framework is to develop infrastructure for the deployment and protection of time- and mission-critical applications on a distributed computing platform, in a challenged computing environment such as the Internet, while using unreliable or untrusted COTS components. Government and Industry are increasingly dependent on the use of applications in a collaborative environment spanning multiple sites, by multiple agencies, and across multiple enterprises. In the SINS project, we are rethinking basic ways in which distributed applications are developed, deployed, configured, and maintained.
"ObjectSecurity has in-depth technical knowledge and industrial experience in the design and development of secure systems. NRL and ObjectSecurity currently collaborate on building the next-generation middleware platform for the Navy and Marine Corps that is reconfigurable, fault-tolerant, and secure, together with a model-based agile development process for the rapid incorporation of application-specific components. This technology is dual-use, with applications in military and commercial systems such as the pan-european air traffic management system, a prototype of which is being developed as a part of the EU project AD4."
--- Dr. Ramesh Bharadwaj, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Further information
Homeland security resources: flyers, whitepapers
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