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[Clips] NSA SME-PED - the handheld for spooks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
Fri Sep 16 11:00:53 2005
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<http://www.gizmag.com/go/4601/>
gizmag Article:
NSA SME-PED - the handheld for spooks
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September 16, 2005 The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is
planning to build its own secure wireless handset capable of voice and data
communications over public networks, including CDMA, GSM and Wi-Fi.
The handset which is currently going under the name of "secure mobile
environment - portable electronic device," (SME-PED) is a secure wireless
product that will provide users with voice and data communications
supporting security levels up to Top Secret, as well as e-mail
communications supporting security levels up to Secret.
The SME-PED also provides Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functionality.
The SME-PED will provide the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and other
U.S. Government users with a converged voice and e-mail communications
device similar to commercially available devices such as BlackBerry,
SideKick and Treo 650. Two companies have been awarded US$18 million dollar
multi-year contracts to develop the SME-PED.
One of the companies awarded the contract (the name of the other company
has not yet been released) is L-3 Communications via its subsidiary, L-3
CS-East, an industry leader in designing, developing and manufacturing Type
1 Secure Telephony terminals for the U.S. DoD.
"We are thrilled to have been selected by the NSA to develop the SME-PED,"
said Greg Roberts, president of L-3 CS-East. "SME-PED continues L-3's
legacy of developing leading-edge, high assurance communications products
for use by the U.S. Government. L-3 CS-East will leverage recent
investments in cryptographic technology as well as our experience and
expertise in applying the U.S. Government's Future Narrow Band Digital
Terminal (FNBDT) and High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability
Specification (HAIPIS) protocols while executing this critical program."
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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