Apparatus and method for providing program protection engineering, security management, and report preparation for sensitive and classified projects

US7865388B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TASC, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kenneth Leroy Brumbaugh · Ashburn, US
• Howard Bruce Low · Harpers Ferry, US
• Gregory Hamilton · Fremantle, AU
• James Elbert Davis, Jr. · Manassas, US
• Wendy Fan · Centreville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 6, 2006
• Grant date: Jan 4, 2011
• Expiry date: Nov 6, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06311
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus and method using a program protection engineering (P2E) toolkit to provide program protection engineering, security management, and report preparation for sensitive and classified projects. The P2E toolkit is an implementation of security policies, procedures, and methodologies associated with acquisition programs. Acquisition programs may range from large-scale classified systems for the government to sensitive corporate acquisition programs focusing on company proprietary or intellectual property issues. Specifically, the P2E toolkit provides end-to-end program protection engineering, security management, and report preparation for sensitive and classified programs throughout the program lifecycle, and assists security professionals and program managers to make appropriate decisions to protect their acquisition programs from compromise due to foreign intelligence threats or corporate/industrial espionage. The P2E toolkit enhances the traditional program management concerns of technical performance, schedule, and cost, by adding lifecycle protection as in integral component.