Laboratory Information:
NSA - National Information Assurance Research Laboratory
9800 Savage Road
Suite 6529
Ft. Meade, MD 20755-6529
Website: http://www.nsa.gov/research/ia_research/index.shtml
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/index.shtml
Agency/Department: National Security Agency
Region: Mid-Atlantic
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. Frank Caruso
Phone: 301-688-0840
Fax: (301) 688-0255
Email: fjcarus@tycho.ncsc.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
NSA's National Information Assurance Research
Laboratory (NIARL) is the U.S. government's premier information
assurance research and design center; our IA experts conduct and sponsor research in the technologies
and
techniques which will secure America's information systems of tomorrow. Our researchers aren't just
inventing
products we're trying to invent a safer future. Built upon a foundation of five decades of experience
designing
against threats from the most determined adversaries in the world, the IA Lab's extensive in-house research
program now ranges from cryptographic algorithms to photonics, from operating systems like SELinux,
to
advanced intrusion detection tools. We complement the deep experience of our workforce with close and
creative
partnerships in high-technology with industry, academia, government, and with colleagues scattered around
the
globe. If you are looking for a challenge, we guarantee our problem set will put your talents and training
to the test.
Come apprentice with the masters and help us make the world safer through IA.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Memorandum of Understanding
- Licensing Agreement
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Educational Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
- Independent Research and Development (IR&D)
- Interagency Agreements
- Memorandum of Agreement
- Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Other Transactions
- Patent License Agreements
- Patent Licensing
- Consulting by Laboratory Personnel
- Technology Transfer Sharing Agreement (TTSA)
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- High-bandwidth networks
- High-confidence Software and Systems (HCSS)
- High-speed electronics
- High-Speed Security Solutions
- Intrusion detection systems
- Alert correlation
- Attack attribution (a.k.a. Traceback)
- Attack, Sensing, Warning, and Response
- Authentication
- Client/server models
- Confinement of processes
- Cryptographic Infrastructure and Standards
- Cryptography algorithms
- Cryptography architectures
- Data integrity
- Data reduction and analysis
- Guaranteed invocation of processes
- Anomaly Detection
- Malicious code detection
- Middleware infrastructure
- Optical networking technologies
- Peer-to-peer models
- Photonic logic research
- Privilege Management
- Public key infrastructure
- Research Integration
- Secure Network Management
- Secure Operating Systems
- Secure Wireless Multimedia
- Separation of information domains
- Signal propagation
- Technical Security
- Trusted labeling
- Virtual isolation and containment.
- Visualization
- Attestation
- Host-based monitoring
- Insider threat detection
- Security protocols
- Trusted computing
- User authentication
- Wireless security
