Secure Open Architecture Open System Technologies for Tactical Networks

The Naval tactical submarine environment poses a complex set of computing requirements unique in many aspects to the particular environment. However, along with the uniqueness of some of the submarine specific requirements comes other more common necessities found across many of the large Department of Defense (DOD) programs. One of those common requirements is the need to handle data at multiple levels of classification on a common set of physical hardware. This effort aims to develop and introduce a Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) capable virtualization layer into the tactical submarine environment. The Lightweight Unwavering Guardian Hypervisor (LUGH)is not only secure and stable, but is able to process its I/O at real-time speeds with near native processor overhead.