Secure Middleware for Situation Aware Naval C and Combat Systems

There is an increasing need within the Navy Ma rine Corps for building distributed situation aware ap plications that are rapidly recon gurable and surviv able in the face of attacks and changing mission needs For the Navy s vision of Network Centric Warfare and Total Ship Computing to succeed there is an urgent need for a secure robust and survivable network in frastructure for disseminating mission critical informa tion in a timely manner It is widely believed that intelligent software agents provide the ability to build robust agile and e cient distributed applications We outline how SINS Secure Infrastructure for Networked Systems being developed at the Naval Research Lab oratory will provide commanders and war ghters the necessary middleware for constructing situation aware Command and Control C and combat applications We pay particular attention to the correctness sur vivability and e ciency of the underlying middleware architecture and develop a middleware de nition lan guage SOL Secure Operations Language that enables C and Combat applications to use this infrastructure in a seamless and scalable manner