Assured File Transfer (AFT)

CTC is serving as program manager for the National Security Agency’s Assured File Transfer (AFT) Cross Domain Solution (CDS) project.  Working with several industry partners, CTC is helping provide a secure means of passing multiple file types and data bi-directionally between network domains of varying security classifications.  Critical to this process is being certain that no high-side classified information is divulged to the low side and that no low-side code with unintended consequences is passed to the high side.

This represents another step toward realization of the Global Information Grid.  The near- to mid-term Global Information Grid transition remains Guard centric.

Enabling Secure Bi-Directional File Transfer

The AFT program is intended to provide an accredited cross-domain solution for securely passing critical file types across security policy domains and accompanying network boundaries.  The initial focus is on two particular domains, but the project is designed for use within the DoD, and it complies with DoD mobile code policy.  The program is scalable to 20,000 user accounts and can be used as a desktop cleaning tool for high-side users.

The AFT program will concentrate its initial efforts on Microsoft Office® File Formats (such as Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint®), image files (such as bitmaps {bmp}, joint photographic experts group {jpeg}, and graphics interchange format {gif}), compressed (such as PKZIP {zip}, GNU-ZIP {gz}, and Unix tar), and text files.  Further efforts will be devoted to working on other document formats such as active Web pages, database files such as Microsoft Access® files, and multimedia files (such as audio video interleave {avi}, quick-time-movie® {mov}, and motion picture experts group {mpeg}).

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