Fast Reconfiguring Environment for Electronic Kneeboard (Freeboard) Navy SBIR FY2015.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.2 Topic No.: N152-087 Topic Title: Fast Reconfiguring Environment for Electronic Kneeboard (Freeboard) Proposal No.: N152-087-0235 Firm: Architecture Technology Corporation 9971 Valley View Road Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344 Contact: Timothy Hartley Phone: (952) 829-5864 Abstract: Fast Reconfiguring Environment for Electronic Kneeboard (Freeboard) is a novel software solution providing independent application environments (personas) for separate security domains while allowing fast transition between personas, efficient collection and reallocation of memory and persistent storage according to need and priority, and secure management of communication media by smart algorithms directing tablet communication according to application and end-point criteria and data type. Each Freeboard persona is an independent operating system environment. Freeboard allows the kneeboard operator to select a persona to run in the foreground and virtualizes tablet hardware access to ensure it can allocate memory and persistent storage according to its own analysis of competing needs and priorities based on history and configuration. Freeboard ensures resources are sanitized before being reallocated between personas, and encryption protects all communication and persistent storage. Freeboard manages communication to ensure an unclassified persona communicates only with unclassified endpoints or with secure gateways. Applications in the classified persona are restricted to the classified network. Freeboard dynamically classifies data to facilitate routing traffic according to latency and bandwidth needs and media availability, optionally with the aid of a persona OS located component that labels outgoing traffic according to application source and data type. Benefits: Freeboard will be a software product that can be integrated into diverse commercial vendor�s platforms to facilitate rapidly changing tablet personas without tablet restart. Freeboard immediately addresses unique requirements for maximizing tablet use in military missions in classified and unclassified environments: 1) Providing two or more compartmentalized personas, with high-assurance isolation of memory, storage, and communication to guarantee no leakage between security domains; 2) Rapidly switching personas, reducing the incentive for cross-domain solutions to access secure data, and encouraging maintaining isolated classified and unclassified application ecosystems; 3) Sanitizing and reallocating CPU, memory, and storage from temporarily lower priority personas and applications to higher priority personas and applications; 4) Based on data classification and communication media metrics, intelligently selecting from among all available off-tablet communication paths to prioritize data, maximize bandwidth, optimize latency, protect data security, and abstract changes to connectivity, freeing the persona OS from responsibility to react. Commercial customers for Freeboard are tablet manufacturers seeking a competitive advantage in military and corporate deployments, both for company-owned tablets used in fieldwork, offices and manufacturing environments, and for tablets sold directly to end users working for employers with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. Freeboard will allow corporate management of tablet contents and isolated but efficient personal and business personas to protect corporate data without impinging on the personal purposes to which workers often put their tablets to use. Return