Information Systems Engineering Command

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Information Systems Engineering Command (ISEC) personnel were briefed regarding several areas that were a concern to Task Force Mercury (TFM) personnel. ISEC is assisting TFM in ongoing Special Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) projects for the Yongsan Relocation Program / Land Partnership Program (YRP/LPP). Areas of ISEC concern include security standards for SCIFs but also the obtainment of In Line Network Encryptors (INE)s. These items will be included in a future Augmentation to Table of Distributions and Allowances (AUGTDA) being prepared in support of new YRP/LPP requirements. ISEC personnel were also briefed on the future deployment of Common High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) Interoperable Manager to Efficient Remote Administration (CHIMERA) in supporting the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and the Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System Korea (CENTRIXS-K) networks. They were also briefed on the possibility of the CHIMERA being used on the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications …show more content…

These slides were prepared to brief the 1st SIG BDE S-3 regarding the process of allowing CHIMERA on networks (SIPRNet and CENTRIXS-K) which 1st SIG BDE has the responsibility for supporting. The 1st SIG BDE was briefed and additional questions/concerns were questioned the requirement to obtain an Authority to Operate (ATO) or Authority to Connect (ATC) before allowing CHIMERA on these networks. In the teleconference these issues were addressed and it was stressed and reiterated by Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) personnel that a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) was all that was needed since CHIMERA is an application not a system. This was briefed to the Chief, Cyber Security Branch 41st SIG BN who in turn placed less stringent requirements for the deployment of CHIMERA on the SIPRNet and CENTRIXS-K

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