Army Secure Operating System: Information Security for Real Time Systems

Abstract

The Army Secure Operating System (ASOS) project, under the management of the U.S. Army CECOM organization, will provide real time systems software necessary for fielding modern Battlefield Automation Systems. The ASOS objective is to develop a family of operating systems for tactical data system applications. ASOS will support real time applications software coded in Ada. In addition, ASOS will incorporate information security technology to protect classified data processed by Army tactical systems. The security technology is based on the National Computer Security Center's Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). Current plans include two members of the ASOS family: a Dedicated Secure Operating System at the TCSEC C2 level and a Multilevel Secure Operating; System at the TCSEC A1 level. In the paper we present an overview of the ASOS concept and TRW's solution to the ASOS design and analysis problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA340370

Entities

People

  • Ben L. Di Vito
  • Eric R. Anderson
  • Ruth M. Hart

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Classified Materials
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Cybersecurity
  • High Level Languages
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Security
  • Tactical Data Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber