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L-3's RedEagle KG-240 Receives NSA Certification

L-3 Communications announced that the RedEagle KG-240, a 100 Mb per second Internet Protocol secure network encryption product designed and manufactured by its Communication Systems-East Division, received certification by the NSA to support levels of classified traffic through Top Secret/SCI. The RedEagle KG-240 has also successfully passed the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center compliance testing in accordance with the new and stringent standards of the High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability Specification (HAIPIS). HAIPIS compliance is required by the NSA when securing classified IP networks for the U.S. military, government agencies and qualified contractors. The RedEagle KG-240 is the first, and only solution being delivered to customers today, that has passed both NSA Type 1 and SPAWAR HAIPIS testing.

The RedEagle KG-240 broadens L-3 Communications' leading position in supplying the U.S. Government with secure communication capabilities by adding network encryption to its existing portfolio of secure voice, data, key management and embedded solutions. L-3 Communications is the leading supplier and developer of Type 1 secure HAIPIS solutions with developments covering performance categories from 10 Mb per second to 10 Gb per second under the RedEagle brand as well as a 56 kbps Remote Access HAIPE Client solution under the PETRA brand.

"These approvals are strategic to L-3, placing us solidly in the government IP network encryption market," said Greg Roberts, president of L-3 Communication Systems-East. "The U.S. Government is investing heavily in network centric operations which require the standards based security that our RedEagle HAIPIS compliant solutions provide. With a growing family of secure networking products that will range from client, through enterprise and WAN solutions, we are well positioned to support the secure data requirements of the new Global Information Grid."