TNE RFI_Government Questions.pdf
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This is a set of 14 technical questions from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Transformational Capabilities Office regarding their Trusted Network Entry (TNE) project, dated December 19, 2024.
The questions focus on capabilities related to secure network communications and trusted systems, specifically addressing: Lines of Effort (LoE) coverage, C-SWaP requirements, Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT) implementation, Chain of Trust architecture, authentication methods at OSI Layers 1-3, remote attestation capabilities, encryption key management, and experience with classified tactical devices. The questions aim to assess vendors' technical capabilities in implementing secure network entry solutions for airborne and space-based platforms, with particular emphasis on integration into Modular Open Systems and end-to-end secure ad-hoc network scenarios. Several questions specifically probe experience with classified (Secret) systems and cross-domain solutions between black, gray (CUI), and red (Secret) networks.
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TRANSFORMATIONAL CAPABILITIES OFFICE
TRUSTED NETWORK ENTRY (TNE)
GOVERNMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS OF INTEREST
19 DEC 2024
1. Do your technologies address zero (prime who integrates others’ solutions), one, two, or all three of the Lines of Effort (LoE) stated within this RFI? Please identify the LoE(s) and operational challenge(s) that your technologies address.
2. How do your current capabilities and proposed solutions address the operational challenges and scope, and how do you envision your capabilities/technologies improving the status quo?
3. How do your proposed solutions’ C-SWaP requirements compare to what is in use today?
4. What attributes of your proposed solutions are most novel and why?
5. Explain how your proposed solutions may be integrated into a Modular Open System.
6. How do your current capabilities and proposed solutions fit into an end-to-end, secure, ad-hoc network entry scenario?
7. Do you have and/or have you used a Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT) and if so, to what extent?
8. Have you built a Chain of Trust up from an HRoT to include various hardware, firmware, operating system, hypervisor, and/or apps? If so, how?
9. Do you have or used technology that strictly allows only HRoT-validated hardware, firmware, operating system, hypervisor, and/or apps to run? If so, how was it tested and validated?
10. Have you designed/developed mutual, multifactor, and/or cryptographic-hardware-token authentication at OSI Layers 1 - 3? If so, how?
11. Have you worked remote attestation?
12. Do you have or have you worked with technology that can very securely create, receive, store, and/or preposition strong, symmetric encryption keys for later use by an OSI Layer
1-3 connection
13. Have you designed/developed/deployed classified (i.e. Secret) tactical devices?
14. Have you designed/created gray, CUI, OSI Layers 1-3 connections across black network
(or public medium)? Have you designed/created red, Secret, OSI Layers 1-3 connections across gray, CUI network?
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