SMART: Mail

Northrop Grumman Mission System's Secure Messaging and Routing Terminal (SMART) provides simultaneous, trusted handling of AUTODIN- and DMS-formatted message traffic. SMART:Mail enables users to compose, send, and receive email between their desktops and those destinations that can only accommodate legacy message protocols and formats. Users can create an email message on their desktop workstation or PC and send the email through AUTODIN with the assurance that SMART will validate the authority of the user to generate and send the message. SMART:Mail interfaces with existing COTS communication applications available at the subscriber's workstation. SMART:Mail satisfies the security services of confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, access control, availability, and audit. All of these security services are requirements under the Defense Message System (DMS) being implemented by the Department of Defense (DOD).

Drawing of SMART services used with CSP messaging domain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SMART:Mail messaging services are used in conjunction with the Communication Support Processor (CSP) messaging domain. Only five components are necessary to bring SMART:Mail capability to your organization: (1) CSP connection: (2) SMART; (3) SMTP Server; (4) network, and (5) a computer with an e-mail creation package such as Microsoft Outlook.

Using SMART's powerful Automatic Routing Module (ARM), messages can be routed to SMART:Mail addresses based upon simple or complex sets of message-evaluation criteria. Also, SMART:Mail can process the same message to many addresses based upon either the same or different criteria.

Messages received from the DoDIIS AUTODIN Bypass System (DABS), the Defense Message System (DMS), and the DMS Transition Hubs (DTHs) undergo rigorous security checking by CSP before being transmitted to the SMART:Mail domain. SMART contains the same security engine found in the CSP that is accredited for Multi-level security (MLS) operations. The system security manager has complete control over the assignment and restriction of message dissemination down to the individual recipient. Regardless of whether the routing criteria are based upon classification, codeword, caveat, handling instruction, a key word, or a phrase - SMART will not transmit the message to the Exchange server unless all pre-defined security criteria are satisfied.

SMART Message Form Example

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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