Arkham Technology Limited — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF193-CSO1
Arkham Technology Limited — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
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- Amount
- $49,889
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF193-CSO1
- Solicitation
- DoD SBIR X19.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2019-12-12 → 2020-12-12
Description
The proposed effort will develop and mature our Last-inch Load Device (LLD) product for Air Force Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) interoperability and automation. This is a very small device for loading cryptographic keys and certificates into End Cryptographic Devices (ECUs). Unlike traditional key loaders, such as the AN/PYQ-10 SKL, the graphical user interface is in a multi-function separate device like a cyber-hardened smartphones which are already in the Warfighter’s inventory. The LLD is based on our embedded KMI/IoT Processor (KIP). The KIP is a Type 1 Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryptor, which was demonstrated in previous SBIR contracts performing DS-101, KMI Over the Network Keying (OTNK), authenticated SNMP TLSTM CCMIB management, and MQTT TLS encrypted IoT web services.