The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully demonstrated the communications and transmission security architecture of its proposed Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT). During recent tests, Boeing used TEAM TSAT partner General Dynamics C4 Systems‘ Advanced INFOSEC Machine (AIM) to demonstrate how TSAT will send and receive encrypted messages once operational. The tests were conducted at General Dynamics’ facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona. They supported the Defense Department’s Crypto Modernization Initiative (CMI) to transform and modernize information assurance capabilities. The demonstration also showed key capabilities such as uploading and reprogramming algorithms over the network as well as other security functions.
Boeing’s TEAM TSAT consists of Cisco Systems, Hughes, IBM, Harris Corp., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., LGS Innovations, Raytheon, General Dynamics C4 Systems, L-3 Communications, BBN Technologies, EMS Technologies SAIC and Innovative Communications Engineering (ICE). The Boeing team submitted its proposal to the Air Force on July 30. The Air Force is expected to announce the winner of the multi-billion-dollar TSAT space segment contract in January 2008—St. Louis, Missouri
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