BAE Systems demonstrates XTS Guard 5

BAE Systems has demonstrated the ability of its XTS Guard 5 to provide US intelligence organisations with access to geospatial imagery and data from its Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) platform, the company announced on 16 October.

The system demonstrated secure information sharing between government agencies and networks during the recent Enterprise Challenge 2018. This exercise allows Department of Defense agencies and international partners to demonstrate information sharing across disparate networks prior to system deployment.

The XTS Guard 5 demo showed that the product’s architecture will support multi-enclave and multi-compartment controlled information sharing, for information that is subdivided based on its sensitivity, with advanced administration and auditing, ensuring that releasable information stored on a section of an internal network is sharable. It proved the effective transfer of multiple data types in near-real time, including email, attachments and chat.

As intelligence organisations access geospatial imagery and data from BAE Systems’ GXP Platform, XTS Guard 5 provides cross-domain search functionality. This breaks down information stovepipes and secure  boundaries that currently exist, providing a bridge between security domains to allow intelligence analysts to quickly and easily gather information that was previously cumbersome and time consuming to obtain.

The system is further enhanced by Sterling Computers' SMARTXD, which allows existing customer applications to become multi-domain enabled, to share releasable data across security domains, including coalition partners.