Raytheon to upgrade communications
cyber security for Air Force
B-2 bomber SATCOM
October 26, 2015
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, 26 Oct. 2015. Cyber security
experts at Raytheon Co. are upgrading encryption modules in a
satellite communications system (SATCOM) for the B-2 bomber to
enhance the strategic aircraft'sinformation security.
U.S. Air Force experts are asking Raytheon Co. to provide encryption
modules for B-2 airborne radios under terms of a $22.9 million five-year
contract announced last week.
Officials of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Joint Base
San Antonio, Texas, are asking the Raytheon Space and Airborne
Systems segment in Largo, Fla., to produce the AN/ARC-234
crypto-modernized baseband input/output (BBIO) module.
The contract calls for Raytheon to provide crypto-modernized, National
Security Agency (NSA) Type 1-certified, cryptographic radios that will
replace the legacy AN/ARC-234 device, focused on embedded-crypto,
form and fit replacements for the BBIO module.
This contract helps the Air Force upgrade the AN/ARC-234 Airborne
Integrated Terminal Group (AITG) communication system to comply with
NSA Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) Policy 3-9 Cryptographic
Modernization Initiative (CMI). The AN/ARC-234 AITG is a satellite
communications (SATCOM) system for the B-2 stealth bomber.
The AN/ARC-234 is a single AITG radio set that consists of five line
replaceable units (LRUs). The five LRUs are the radio receiver transmitter
(AIT), remote control unit (RCU), fill panel, low noise amplifier/diplexer
(LNAD), and mounting tray for the AIT.
The NSA requires a modernization of the AN/ARC-234 as part of the
NSA's Cryptographic Modernization Initiative (CMI). This effort will require
modernization of both the hardware and software of the AITG communication system.
The Air Force is awarding the contract to Raytheon because the company is
the developer of the crypto-modernized Baseband Input/Output module for
the AN/ARC-234 radio. Raytheon also is the sole developer, manufacturer,
and maintainer of the AN/ARC-234 radio, and owns the data rights to the radio.
The ARC-234 is a piece of highly specialized equipment, requiring extensive
National Security Agency (NSA) Type 1 certification processes for the device
and the facility in which it is produced, Air Force officials say.
A Type 1 product is a device or system that has been certified by the NSA for
use in cryptographically securing classified US Government information.
Type 1 is the highest level of NSA information assurance certification possible.
It includes testing and formal analysis of cryptographic security, functional
security, tamper resistance, emissions security, and security of the product
development and manufacturing processes.
On this contract Raytheon will do the work in Largo, Fla., and should be
finished by October 2020. For more information contact Raytheon
Space and Airborne Systems online at www.raytheon.com.
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