Next Generation Load Device - Medium

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) is a critical enabler of the Army Modernization Priorities in support of Army 2030/2040 and Communication Security (COMSEC). This PE funds the development and test of the Next Generation Load Device - Medium (NGLD-M) to conduct the Army's key fill mission by issuing, filling, and managing Cryptographic keys to both legacy and future Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) aware End-Cryptographic Units (ECUs). This effort is an Acquisition Category III (ACAT III) Program of Record (POR). COMSEC is governed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSA) 6510. In order to ensure Warfighters continue to have secured communications (i.e., encrypted data and voice), Army communications systems are required to support modern cryptographic capabilities by implementing modern algorithms. These efforts are consistent with Strategic Planning Guidance (SPG). FY2025 funding supports the development of the NGLD-M program which replaces the legacy Simple Key Loader (SKL). NGLD-M adds capability of cryptographic re-programmability, over the network keying, and is compliant with NSA's Cryptographic Modernization 2 (CM2) algorithms. Funding supports the NGLD-M developmental effort for two vendors to develop and test their hardware and software solutions.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0605144A_5_2040_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in FY 2025 is due to NGLD-M Development Test and Evaluation support.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.