Forward Thinking has extensive experience in the following areas:

Trusted Secure Systems

• Trusted Kernels and Real-Time Operating Systems - Co-inventors of the NSA certified Trusted Kernel within the AIM chip.
• Primary Systems Engineers and Trusted Software for 2 of the 3 NSA certified Crypto Processors.
• Trusted Real-Time Embedded Systems
  • NSA (Cryptographic Systems, INFOSEC Modules, C4I, ...)
  • Commercial (Smartcard, Transaction Servers, ...)

Key Processing and Management Techniques

• Type-1 Cryptography (ACCORDION, JOSEKI, FIREFLY, ...)
• Standards (EKMS 308, EKMS 217, EKMS 608, NSA 87-27, NSA 90-02A,  ...)
• Commercial Cryptography (AES, DES, Triple DES, DSS, SHA, RSA, MD-5, ...)

Communication Protocols

• DS-101, DS-102, 802.1 (Ethernet), USB, ...

Development Process (SEI CMM Level 3, J-STD-016-1995)

• Architecture (System, Software, Hardware)
• Project Management
• Rapid Application Development
• System Modeling
• Advanced, Repeatable Testing Techniques (Simplified Regression Testing)
• Object Oriented Development
• Languages
  • C, C++, Assembly Code, Ada, Java, FORTRAN, Perl, ...
  • Microsoft (VC++, Visual Basic, IIS, MFC, COM/DCOM, .NET, C#, SQL Server, Windows 2000/XP, ...)

Integration Services

Tool Development

Graphical User Interface Development

Database Development

Communication Systems Development

Digital Hardware Design (FPGAs, VHDL)