Information Systems Security Program

Information Systems Security Program under the Air Force's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation budget activity, aims to address cyber security threats and enhance war-fighter dependence on cyberspace. The program focuses on securing telecommunications and information systems by providing cradle-to-grave research, development, acquisitions, supply, sustainment, depot maintenance, and demilitarization of the Air Force cryptographic and key distribution/management systems. It also aims to transform electronic key delivery and cryptographic devices to meet the next generation war-fighting requirements driven by the National Security Agency's mandates. The program includes efforts to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and systems while providing enhanced security for all Air Force voice, data, and video capabilities on the battlefield and throughout the DoD enterprise.

Within this program element, Project 675100: Cryptographic Modernization is specifically focused on modernizing cryptographic devices protecting critical national security information across multi-domain operations. This effort supports an integrated approach across the cyber domain to transform to next-generation cryptographic capabilities. It provides U.S. forces and multinational partners with the multi-domain security needed to protect the flow and exchange of strategic, operational, and tactical information in accordance with national and international policy/standards. The project also includes efforts to add quantum resistance to existing high assurance cryptographic products in order to protect against advanced quantum computing threats. Additionally, it involves activities such as technology development for quantum resilient devices, modernization of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Mode 5 devices to prevent enemy disruption of IFF functions, compliance support for algorithm transition, space modular common crypto studies for quantum resilience impacts, and development of classified data at rest solutions for ISR, C2, and EW platforms exposed to hostile environments.

These efforts are aimed at ensuring the protection of sensitive data and communications critical for national security while addressing evolving cyber threats and technological advancements in encryption and cryptography.