Key Management Infrastructure (KMI)
Abstract
This funding line supports the Army Network Modernization Strategy LOE 1, Unified Network. Efforts are aligned to support the Network-Cross Functional Team capability set approach to achieve the network modernization strategy. Communications Security (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. As part of the Army's Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) implementation, the Next Generation Load Device - Medium (NGLD-M) is an Acquisition Category III (ACAT III) Program of Record (POR) and modernized load device that will replace approximately 144,000 legacy AN/PYQ-10A and AN/PYQ-10A(C) (Army), which is commonly referred to as the Simple Key Loader (SKL). The NGLD-M will receive, store, manage, and transfer electronic key through the network to be loaded into communication devices such as radios and satellites to secure the network. The SKL has been in the field for 14 years and does not support modernized network concepts and faces battery life attrition among early versions of the device. The NGLD-M will fulfill the current and modernized Army network concepts which will improve operational readiness, adaptiveness, and survivability of the Warfighters supporting the COMSEC requirements for approximately 1.5 million End Cryptographic Units (devices that consume cryptographic key to enable encrypted communication such as a radio or secure phone). The NGLD-M requires RDT&E investment to develop and test the hardware and software solutions to meet the operational requirements outlined in the NGLD Capability Production Document (CPD) to modernize fill devices with capability to transfer and receive cryptographic key over a network to reduce causalities and maintain mission OPTEMPO. Without this technology Warfighters are required to manually receive their cryptographic products by traveling to COMSEC account locations (which may not be co-located) and manually filling their devices. The Reprogrammable Single Chip Universal Encryptor (RESCUE) is a government owned reprogrammable cryptographic chip that incorporates KMI functionality and modern algorithms to encrypt and decrypt messages for the embedding. This chip could be adapted for use within the NGLD-M or any other cryptographic communications system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- DV4_0303140A_7_2040_PB_2021
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