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By Geoff Fein
Raytheon [RTN] is providing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with a new network architecture dubbed CHAIN that integrates commercial technologies into a compartmentalized Windows-based environment, a company official said.
In June, DARPA awarded a $14 million contract to Raytheon to build the DARPA Secure Enterprise Network (DSEN) based on the company's Compartmentalized High Assurance Information Network (CHAIN).
"Chain is an architecture we developed that is a set of capabilities and security services that meets the information needs of what we believe is a wide variety of customers," Bill Stefanski, director of Secure Architecture Systems told reporters yesterday during a briefing in Arlington, Va.
DSEN will allow DARPA personnel to send secure e-mail and file attachments, share instant messages, and to collaborate via voice and video in an environment that recognizes security clearances and manages access to information accordingly, the company said.
"This will change the way DARPA does business," Stefanski said.
Raytheon will migrate DARPA's legacy networks to DSEN, he added.
Based on the company's experience in command and control and in classified areas, Raytheon recongnized that everyone has different needs and in those areas one of the biggest complexities is the policies involved in how data is classified, shared, controlled, and how its use, dissemination and storage is audited, Stefanski said.
"Based on our experience we...