Secure Database Using MotionSafe for Mobile Environments

The Army's Future Combat Systems rely on mobile ad-hoc networks for their success in tactical environments. There are a number of threats to deployed mobile assets used in ad-hoc networks. Space Micro and NMT's new solution, called MotionSafe, provides a very efficient means to protect stored and distributed databases, plus the means to securely communicate this information in the dynamically changing mobile environment. Information protection is provided without a reliable centralized network or security service, supports intermittent connectivity, and where address and physical location are indeterminant. Secure peer-to-peer communication is secured, along with security to forward nodes that are subject to capture. MotionSafe is a highly efficient system, incorporating standard symmetric encryption, an innovative encryption key management system and efficient data management protocols to minimize the ad-hoc network constraints of bandwidth, energy, processing and storage. Space Micro and NMT propose to develop and demonstrate an operational MotionSafe system during Phase I.