SBIR-STTR Award

The objective of this proposal is to present an approach for developing a multiple level secure architecture that will support real-time collaboration access dissimilarly classified networks. This proposal combines the real-time collaboration expertise of Ezenia with the real-time contextual filtering and security screening. The resulting product, the InfoWorkSpace Guard, achieves an effective means of providing a collaborative capability across security levels while ensuring that data crossing these security boundaries is appropriately monitored and filtered.

Benefits:
Commercially the multiple level real-time collaboration capability proposed architecture could be utilized to allow employees to interact with colleagues from another company while maintaining the integrity of each company''''s proprietary data.

Keywords:
Multiple Security Level, collaboration, cross-domain colloaboration, secure collaboration, TS/SCI, DoD Secret,Coalition Secret, InfoWorkSpace Guard, IWS and filtering, real-time collaboration

The objective of this proposed Phase II effort is to leverage the research conducted and documented during the SBIR Phase I project to move forward and build a multiple level secure architecture that will support task-specific, mission-critical, time critical collaboration within and across organizations, providing cross-boundary access; dynamic discovery and sharing of focused explicit, implicit, and tacit knowledge; and real-time collaborative messaging across dissimilarly classified networks.

Keywords:
Collaboration, Mulitple Level Security, Instant Messaging, Collaborative Gateway, Isse Guard, Real Time Messaging, Cross Domain, Secuirty