Key Management Scalability Study
Info-Ops in collaboration with various government agencies proposes to identify and consolidate various DoD and DHS/NORTHCOM needs to determine scenarios for sharing information securely in a coalition environment and provide scenario use case specifications in a format for developing a model(s) to be used in future scalability simulations. Info-Ops will establish cryptographic information sharing scenarios for CENTCOM's CENTRIXS, JFCOM's CBIS, and EUCOM's LOCE systems as well as the DHS/NORTHCOM coalition environment and generate scenario reports for each. Info-Ops proposes to establish cryptographic information sharing scenarios for a coalition environment involving several federal, state and local level government and support organizations for DHS/NORTHCOM.

During the first six (6) months of this effort, Info-Ops will schedule and perform meetings with the designated commands to gather the information necessary for the various information sharing scenarios.

During months seven (7) through nine (9), Info-Ops will continue to gather information sharing requirements and data from various sources and organize that data into a usable format that can be used to generate scenarios and reports.

The expected results of this effort will culminate in scenario reports describing coalition information sharing requirements for the users including administrative, network, applications and data requirements. During the final quarter, Info-Ops will provide feedback to, and collaborate with, the various organizations for their review of the scenarios ensuring that the developed scenarios accurately depict their information sharing requirements.

Upon completion of this effort, it is anticipated a follow on effort for developing a model(s) in order to perform scalability simulations of the INFOCENSEC™ key management model being developed under a separate ONR STTR effort with Info-Ops will be performed.
 
Project Leads
Jerry Kimmel, NCSA

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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


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