The wave of commercially developed communications and remote-sensing satellites seeks to balance costs, capability, size, weight, and power consumption in the latest new space designs.

Programs like the National Security Agency’s Commercial Solutions for Classified could be a path to transmit classified information without specialized hardware.

Contested space, where nations compete for military dominance outside Earth’s atmosphere, is driving many military space platforms, but commercial space and small satellites continue to change the way the military suppliers of space electronics approach radiation-hardened component design from testing to deployment.

Awareness is mounting regarding the importance of protecting data-at-rest (DAR) on deployed military platforms.

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components are being embraced so the technology can be serviced at the base instead of waiting for specialized parts or sending the system back state-side.

It’s not just about shielding data drives from shock and vibration; designers also are looking for the latest in speed and capacity, and want encryption to protect data at rest, and security to foil tampering.

PacStar Enterprise CSfC Solutions (ECS), is a suite of enterprise gateway services designed for classified networks using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.

This technology invention resulted from PacStar’s early and continued significant investment in development of tactical systems designed to meet the security and configuration requirements of the National Security Agency CSfC program.

PacStar ECS is a family of gateway solutions that scale from small installations with less than 100 secure connections to large enterprise-class services supporting thousands of concurrent users.

Rugged DTS1 Protects NATO Restricted Data-At-Rest with Hardware and Software Full Disk Encryption (FDE) in a Single Device.

A rugged DTS1 NAS device that protects Top Secret data-at-rest now supports a MIL-STD-1275 filter that provides power supply spike and surge protection on ground vehicles.

Newer on-vehicle integrated networks will be composed of heterogeneous networks in the form of software and equipment from multiple commercial vendors.