SAN DIEGO, CA – Innoflight was
awarded over $5M in government contracts to radiation-harden
and cyber-harden advanced terrestrial
sensor payloads for space. Within Department of Defense (DoD) space programs,
there is a significant interest in leveraging affordable, advanced, and low
size, weight and power (SWaP) avionics systems for use in proliferated Low
Earth Orbit (pLEO) space sensors and seekers on aerospace vehicles. This
approach allows the DoD to rapidly adopt advanced software-defined and
reconfigurable sensor payloads to respond to emerging threats. Innoflight’s
contracts cover the entire scope of these payloads, including the sensor,
read-out electronics, edge processing and power electronics and will leverage
Innoflight’s expertise to space qualify Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)
technologies for mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic and radiation
requirements.
A
key element of Innoflight’s space qualification is a systems-engineering
focused, multi-layer mitigation of both natural and man-made threats to the
payload’s electronics and embedded systems. The largest of the government
contracts emphasizes the requirement to harden against cyber threats.
“Innoflight
has built upon its breadth and depth in radiation mitigation of advanced secure
communications, networking and processing solutions for responsive space;
furthermore, we have taken our expertise and experience in information
assurance through multiple U.S. Government Information Assurance cryptographic
solution certification programs to build a comprehensive cyber capability
called CyberDog” states Jeff Janicik, Innoflight President and CEO.
CyberDog
actively protects all communications between the spacecraft and external
entities, including Internet Protocol (IP) traffic. For IP traffic, CyberDog
selectively calls upon Intrusion Detection System (IDS) routines to quarantine
dangerous data or suspicious outbound traffic for further analysis. The
CyberDog algorithm can be tuned to provide high-assurance encryption services
to protect sensitive mission data. Finally, CyberDog monitors the internal
behavior of the system in real‑time. The proprietary algorithm will monitor for
sudden changes in the behavior of the system and rapidly discriminate the
change event as an attack or anomaly. CyberDog will meet the attack based on
threat condition, programmed rulesets, or updates from an external command and
control node.
These
contracts will produce prototype hardware that has completed qualification
testing and ready for on-orbit demonstration.
About
Innoflight
Innoflight is a Non-traditional Defense Contractor (NDC) founded in 2005. Innoflight offers state-of-the-art space avionics, including Communications & Networking Solutions, Cyber Security Solutions, Processing, Data Storage & Payload Interface Electronics Solutions, and Bus & Payload Integrated Avionics Solutions. Our core competency is secure Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) design through innovative implementation of modern Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology in tandem with common standards and protocols that produce modular, high performance, yet low Size Weight and Power (SWaP) systems at competitive prices. Our products are qualified through an Innoflight rigorous process that includes parts reliability analysis & testing, system level fault tolerance, and radiation risk mitigation. Our customers include the U.S. government, prime aerospace contractors and commercial space developers. Web site: www.innoflight.com.
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