The Army Secure Operating System

Author

Waldhart, Neil A.

Author_Institution

TRW Syst. Integration Group, Redondo Beach, CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

7-9 May 1990

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The Army Secure Operating System (ASOS) is a family of operating systems intended to serve the tactical needs of the US Army. It currently comprises two systems designed to be certifiable to classes C2 and A1 of the DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). Both operating systems provide a common user interface, support real-time applications written in Ada, and are configurable and easily portable to alternate hardware architectures. A brief overview of the development is presented, including a description of the hardware/software architecture, the current status of the project, and a review of lessons learned during the three year development

Keywords

military computing; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; security of data; software portability; user interfaces; Ada; Army Secure Operating System; DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria; US Army; certificate systems; configurable systems; hardware/software architecture; portable systems; real-time applications; tactical needs; user interface; Application software; Computer architecture; Hardware; Information security; Military computing; Multilevel systems; Operating systems; Prototypes; Real time systems; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research in Security and Privacy, 1990. Proceedings., 1990 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2060-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RISP.1990.63838

Filename

63838