Multimedia Collaboration Guard

"Recent events, including the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States, serve to highlight the need for improved intelligence and collection management. Collaboration tools are becoming increasingly important to the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC),law enforcement agencies and others that are involved with our national security. Many agencies and services each have their own private, secure networks, which creates barriers to sharing information. Mechanisms are needed to enable MLS multimediacollaboration and to facilitate easy security policy administration.The Air Force ISSE Guard application provides multi-level secure communications between different networks, but currently only supports email and file transfer mechanisms. These transports do not support real-time, multimedia traffic that is generated bycollaborative applications. Efforts are underway to look at MLS text chat capabilities, but no initiatives are addressing multimedia collaboration, including audio, video, and shared whiteboard. New transport mechanisms and protocols are needed to enableIC users and others to effectively collaborate.Trident Systems proposes to design and develop the Multimedia Collaboration Guard (MCG) to provide multi-level secure multimedia collaboration. The MCG is based up the ISSE Guard platform. The MCG implementation will leverage the planned ISSE Guardsocket-based communication enhancements, and incorporate commercial security