Novel Information Assurance and Antitamper System Based on Collaborative Intelligence

To address the OSD need for innovative tools and techniques that will guarantee the integrity and authenticity of data within the Global Information Grid Net-Centric Enterprise Services (GIG-NCES), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Service Architecture for Tamper-Resistant Software Components (SATSOC) system. This proposed system is based on aware software components, aware application service environments, intelligent event monitoring systems, knowledge-based tamper detection, an antitamper bus, and a central antitamper detection and penalization system. The innovation in collaborative and net-centric intelligent systems and multimode wireless networks will enable the SATSOC system to prevent or delay reverse engineering attempts, strengthen protection layers of GIG-NCES nodes, and seamlessly merge information assurance and antitamper approaches into a unified technique that enables policy-driven management of GIG-NCES node security. In Phase I POC will demonstrate the feasibility of the SATSOC system by assembling and testing the components. In Phase II POC plans to develop a prototype to demonstrate how our approach solves information assurance and antitamper problems, by integrating the SATSOC system into one or more unmanned GIG-NCES nodes and interfacing with C2 systems.