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Thales Norway is a highly innovative company, working in active cooperation with the global Thales Group and with both national and international partners. We are participating in several European cooperative research programmes, and maintain an active partnership with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in several fields of technology which are important to our customers in the medium to long term. As regards Information Assurance, we are taking part in a major European Defence Agency (EDA) programme together with many other important European defence companies in order to develop system-on-chip technologies that can be used to develop encryption engines in the future. A reference testbed has been developed for experimentation with the new NATO standard for secure voice communications – Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) – that contains the essential functionalities of SCIP. Based on this experience and on our long tradition in the development of IP encryption for NATO, we are planning a similar testbed for the next generation of NATO IP crypto based on the High Assurance IP Encryption (HAIPE) standard. We have several years of experience in the field of Secure Service-Oriented Architectures thanks to cooperative research programmes with NATO partners and the FFI. Secure information exchange, based on XML security mechanisms, between a civil emergency management system and a military command and control system has been demonstrated within the EU’s OASIS project. As far as communication systems are concerned, we have participated in numerous European defence and EU programmes to develop secure networking, ad hoc networking technology and quality of service mechanisms for military mobile networks. To create a flexible communications infrastructure in a heterogeneous network environment, we are developing a multi-topology routing prototype for experimentation in cooperation with the Norwegian Armed Forces and the FFI. A Tactical VoIP system is being developed for voice communications in the highly mobile tactical environment, taking into account typical military voice features and radio control. |
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