The three contracts are to develop the facilities that manage the most security sensitive elements of the program the Public Regulated Service Key Management Facility (PKMF), the Mission Key Management Facility (MKMF) and the Ground Control Segment Key Management Facility (GCS-KMF).
These key management facilities will assure continued and accurate service to authorized users. They generate, distribute and manage cryptographic keys that will be used by a range of security modules within Galileo, in both the ground segment and onboard the satellites.
LogicaCMG provides secure data systems for most of the world’s major banks as well as for UK and Dutch defense forces, experience that will ensure all technical challenges are successfully met, said Stuart Martin, director space and satellite communications at LogicaCMG UK.
We have worked with ESA for over 35 years on many of Europe’s most exhilarating programs including provision of all the software in the Huygens probe that landed on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, in January 2005.
In accordance with the procurement procedures of Galileo Industries and ESA, LogicaCMG will now begin the process of selecting subcontractors from across Europe to supply the many components necessary to develop these complex facilities.
