Critical Logic Erasure for Abandonment of Non-Sanitized Equipment

To address the ArmyÆs need for secure field-programmable gate array (FPGA) erasure for U.S. military systems abandoned in theater, Intellisense Systems, Inc. proposes to develop a new Critical Logic Erasure for Abandonment of Non-Sanitized Equipment (CLEANSE) technology. Specifically, the innovation in CLEANSEÆs FPGA erasure strategy for programmable military assemblies will improve the security of programmable devices and prevent foreign entities from being able to reverse engineer sensitive U.S. military equipment. As a result, this technology can be implemented into legacy line-replaceable units (LRUs), units under repair, and future LRUs, which directly addresses the Army requirements to secure FPGAs and systems on a chip (SoCs) with a unique erasure strategy. Intellisense has a comprehensive suite of FPGA-based military electronics and intellectual property (IP) to demonstrate feasibility of the technology capable of showing how current general-purpose FPGA-based systems and design logic can be adapted to integrate the erasure capability with minimal-to-no impact to LRU size, weight, and power. In support of this proposed technology, we analyzed the CLEANSE solution and evaluated the viability of the proposed erasure solution for military, medical, and commercial applications, including addressing the DoDÆs move toward Modular Open Systems Approach requirements. In Phase II, Intellisense plans to implement CLEANSEÆs logic design from a military ground vehicle on an FPGA or SoC to demonstrate erasure in an LRU such as a display. The addition of military-grade encryption will also be introduced to the CLEANSE design. Implementation of established requirements to the CLEANSE IP, such as a unified (FPGA or software-based solution) vendor-agnostic IP solution, are also proposed. Intellisense will develop and refine our business model to be ready for marketing the proposed system to commercial vendors where data security is a top priority for an organization and its products.