>DOC Security Workshop - Real-time DOC Position Paper
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>    Distributed Object Computing is emerging as a key architectural driver
for
>weapons systems as we move into the next century. Raytheon has been
involved in
>the development of computing environments for a wide range of weapons
systems,
>including air defense, communications, missile systems, and ISR.  Security
>solutions for these systems include multilevel security as well as system
high
>architectures, and incorporate encryption and network security (including
mobile
>communications) as well as trusted and untrusted operating systems. These
>systems are concerned with confidentiality, integrity and denial of service.
>Mission success (e.g. lethality, survivability) may be accomplished by a
greater
>emphasis on system availability (through integrity and denial of service
>protection) than through traditional DoD confidentiality concerns.
>    Computing architectures within real-time defense platforms consist of
multi-
>processor environments connected via one of several types of interconnects or
>buses. An increasing number of these systems will be implemented according to
>architecture standards, such as DII COE, JTA, JASA and TAFIM, which include
>distributed object technology, such as CORBA. Of these, JASA specifically
>addresses real-time systems, and includes real-time CORBA as an emerging
>standard. Object technology is used in these architectures for interprocess
>communication, interprocessor communication, and communication between
>platforms.
>    Goal: Develop a method for assessing the level of security and assurance
>provided by a particular implementation of a secure ORB in an
architecture, and
>understand the elements that can be adapted to increase or decrease
security in
>the object environment according to system requirements.
>    Raytheon's interest is motivated by the desire to better explore the
>requirements and technologies for security in DOC as it will be applied to
>weapon system networks and warfighting scenarios, and to ensure secure
>interoperability between DoD platforms, leveraging commercial technology. The
>presentation will further discuss the use of object technology in these
>environments, and identify issues and recommendations for achieving these
goals.
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>Roberta Gotfried           Dennis Finn
>Raytheon Systems Company   Raytheon Systems Company
>(310) 334-7655             (310) 334-1043
>rlgotfried@mail.hac.com    djfinn@mail.hac.com
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