WPL, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N162-073

WPL, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$149,979
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N162-073
Solicitation
2016.2
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2016-12-20 → 2018-03-21

Description

The Marine Corps requires a means of securing group communications at the tactical edge that does not rely on a Type 1 device. WPLs Twice Encrypted and Authenticated Messaging (TEAM) solution combines NSA Suite B cryptographic primitives with overlay multicasting to provide this capability in a manner that is consistent with the NSAs Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) process. Our solution is extremely bandwidth efficient. For example, a notional 1000-byte Application Layer message will be expanded to a 1059-byte IPv4 packet by TEAM. This is less than 1/3 of the overhead expansion incurred in existing CSfC solutions for securing unicast data in transit.