TCP/IP On-Time System

The Kolona Gateway is a modular, cross-domain and multilevel security gateway capable of connecting the Global Information Grid (GIG) in a pluggable manner to civilian air traffic management authorities worldwide in a NextGen context. The Kolona On-Time System is a multipurpose container built to NextGen specifications as a framework for the Gateway application. The Kolona On-Time System is: 1. Capable of more than eight million full-blown transactions a minute. 2. Capable of near linear scalability. 3. Real-time (RT) enabled. 4. Cross-domain (CD) enabled. 5. Multilevel Security (MLS) - based on Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) - enabled. 6. With very high assurance. 7. With very high integrity. This paper presents an overview of the system architecture for the Kolona On-Time System. The Kolona On-Time System (see Figure 1) is a system developed under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) on a request for proposal (RFP) of the Air Force Electronic Systems Command (ESC). The Kolona On-Time System was carefully engineered for NextGen compatibility and non-functional, quality control criteria (QCC), e.g., interoperability, scalability, etc. (the “ilities”).