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ObjectSecurity has researched the particular challenges of network centric warfare (network enabled capability) NCW/NEC for a number of years, particulary focussing on central, unified security management and survivable, secure middleware in ad-hoc, lossy networks. The results are shared situational awareness and collaorative decision making.
 SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) BEST PRACTICE ANALYSIS FOR QINETIQ & MOD
ObjectSecurity carried out an extensive review of a large analysis of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the UK Ministry of Defence. The QinetiQ-led project was a study to assess the feasibility and benefits of SOA for MOD's CCII. ObjectSecurity's involvement was in the best practice analysis part where many widely-applicable recommendations were identified. ObjectSecurity also attended two QientiQ-led SOA workshops with MOD, suppliers, and consultants and presented the best practice recommendations and ObjectSecurity's TrustedSOA approach to SOA security.
"ObjectSecurity supported QinetiQ's analysis of Service Oriented Architectures by providing a thorough and enlightening overview of the industry's history and best practice."
--- Dr. Mark O'Dell, QinetiQ Trusted Information Management's R&D team
SINS/MDA/OPENPMF Secure distributed application platform for NCW/NEC
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
Defence IT security resources: flyers, whitepapers
Video clip of the SINS demo
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