Protected Anti-jam Tactical SATCOM (PATS) Key Management System Prototype
Category: Other
Developers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Product Description:When secure satellite communication fails, missions and lives are at risk. Lincoln Laboratory’s PATS KMS Prototype solves one of the most critical and long-standing challenges in military SATCOM: how to securely distribute and rotate cryptographic keys at scale, in real time, and over wireless links. The system works even under jamming, compromise, and disconnection. This gold-standard reference implementation introduces two breakthrough innovations: a hybrid in-band keying protocol and a production-grade implementation of broadcast encryption algorithms. Together, they enable high levels of resilience, availability, automation, and scalability with minimal bandwidth overhead and no orphaning of legitimate users. Transitioned to government and industry partners through the U.S. Space Force. It is already adopted across the PATS ecosystem, the prototype is serving as the digital twin and technical baseline for the final operational system.
Developers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Product Description:When secure satellite communication fails, missions and lives are at risk. Lincoln Laboratory’s PATS KMS Prototype solves one of the most critical and long-standing challenges in military SATCOM: how to securely distribute and rotate cryptographic keys at scale, in real time, and over wireless links. The system works even under jamming, compromise, and disconnection. This gold-standard reference implementation introduces two breakthrough innovations: a hybrid in-band keying protocol and a production-grade implementation of broadcast encryption algorithms. Together, they enable high levels of resilience, availability, automation, and scalability with minimal bandwidth overhead and no orphaning of legitimate users. Transitioned to government and industry partners through the U.S. Space Force. It is already adopted across the PATS ecosystem, the prototype is serving as the digital twin and technical baseline for the final operational system.
