In January of this year CHIMERA was transferred to PdL CCS to become a non-program of record.Īlthough South Korea has agreed to host the first operational LUT, several pilots have been previously held with other agencies like the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. It can leave our host vulnerable to attack."ĭoyle was one of several CERDEC Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate Cryptographic Modernization Branch engineers who traveled to South Korea in January to perform a limited user test, or LUT, sponsored by the Program Executive Office: Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, or PEO C3T's, Product Lead COMSEC Cryptographic Systems, or PdL CSS, to determine if CHIMERA will be released Army-wide.ĬHIMERA originally started as a proof of concept engineering test tool in 2014 to see if engineers could successfully manage multiple vendors from a single interface, on a single platform. "It's a huge cost to the Army every single year in terms of licenses and ancillary costs such as the need to have unique hosts, operating systems for each software, as well as risk of running outdated software required by the vendor management software to run on said hosts, which gives us a lot of problems in the cyber realm. "We realized we had three different HAIPE managers, and each one required its own unique laptop, resources, licensing and associated logistics of costs," said Patrick Doyle, Cyber Security Information Assurance Division lead electronics engineer. By creating and using universal software, CHIMERA offers the potential to save the Army time, money and manpower. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, known as CERDEC, the Common HAIPE Interoperable Manager for Efficient Remote Administration, or CHIMERA, allows for remote configuration, management, software update and cryptographic key loading of multiple modern Inline Network Encryptors, or INEs, from the three major device vendors currently deployed within the Army inventory.Ĭurrently, Army management must be done from multiple hosts, each running on its own unique vendor management software.
The technology will configure, inventory, sanitize and restart Type 1 High-Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor, or HAIPE, devices from one platform in a central location.ĭeveloped by engineers at U.S. Army engineers have developed new technology to enable Soldiers to have better situational awareness while saving the Army time, money and manpower. CHIMERA is DOD owned is expected to me made.ĪBERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Developed by CERDEC engineers, CHIMERA will give Soldiers more situational awareness by being able to configure, inventory, sanitize and restart Type 1 HAIPE devices from one platform in a central location.
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