The Protection of Radio Networks Using Physics-Based Authentication and Location Awareness

Digital Authentication Technologies, Inc. (“DAT”) proposes to begin design, build, debug and testing of its innovative physics-based system that has been developed in its NAVAIR Phase I contract. As the Phase I work describes, the DAT system introduces physics-based strong authentication and location awareness to defeat hacker tools and add additional layers of protection to currently exposed wireless networks and programmable radios. This Phase II effort will extend the DAT system into a working programmable radio implementation that will be installed and tested at a to-be-determined field test location. There we will mount a series of studies to breach the security and launch a replay or other attack on the programmable radio system. The result of this Phase II effort will be the availability of a commercial product consisting of software and associated hardware modules that provide physics-based authentication and protection of programmable radios systems. These will be test-worthy units that provide physics-based authentication and protection of wireless systems.