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Mutualink Overview: Interoperability & Resources Sharing Capability

FOUO - Authorized US DOD, NATO and US Coalition MOD. Confidential & Proprietary. (c) 2013. Mutualink, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction or dissemination prohibited.

Seamless Communications, Video & Data Across Systems

Seamlessly connects incompatible communications resources within and beyond the battle space and Homeland Security / First Responder environment:

• Connects incompatible radios, satellite, cellular, analog and digital phones and VoIP systems • Enables simultaneous sharing of full motion video, voice, file and chat • Bridges encrypted radio nets without crypto key sharing • Everything over IP COTS technology • Network transport agnostic – uses any IP enabled transport (wireless, terrestrial, satellite)

Agile Vertical and Horizontal Spanning on the Fly • Spans Military C2 to tip of the spear, and Incident Commander to First Responder • Dynamically shapeable communications groups – flattens communications and information sharing • Vertical (up/down) spanning:

• Brigade / Incident Command down to subordinate elements • Brigade / Incident Command up to senior leadership echelons as and when needed

• Horizontal (left/right) spanning: • Interoperability and sharing across and among Command and Operational organizational units

WHAT MUTUALINK DOES

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Mutualink DoD and Coalition Engagement Highlights

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NATO Special Operations Forces Headquarters (NSHQ) :

NSHQ selected Mutualink as its official interoperable communications platform to support NATO SOF coalition partners with advanced anywhere, anytime, interoperable communications and information sharing capability.

Network Integration Evaluation (NIE):

Mutualink was selected for the US Army NIE acquisition program to address communications gaps, including among Joint and Coalition forces.

US Army CERDEC:

Mutualink is utilized by CERDEC for several projects to provide secure interoperable communications and resource sharing of various voice and video media, including cellular to tactical radio communications.

JUICE 2012 and 2013:

The 2012 Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise featured Mutualink for interoperability among and between military and civilian agencies in an enclave network. JUICE 2013 exercised this capability to further address critical gaps in Joint, Interagency, COCOM, Coalition and Partner communications, under guidance of the JUICE host, the Army Joint On-demand Interoperability Network (JOIN), based at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

JITC Certification:

Mutualink is conducting DISA’s Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) process for Unified Capabilities and Approved Products List certification. This involves completion of DIACAP and related IA aspects, as well as test strings to validate user-defined operational capabilities that address gaps defined by the DoD sponsors, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army.


Mutualink Meets DoD Interoperable Communications User Needs

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The operational goal is to improve mission preparation and operational execution by implementing a flexible capability that provides interoperable communications and sharing of resources and information. The Mutualink

platform meets the following sponsor/user requirements: 1. Provide interoperability over an IP network of disparate radios and other voice communications, such as tactical military and

commercial public safety LMR radios, Maritime and HF radios, public/private cellular, landline and VoIP phones

2. Provide secure IP-based media sharing from devices across available IP network transmission modes such as wired and wireless networks, Satcom, MANAT, Microwave and HF

3. Enhance command-level and tactical communications by sharing situational awareness media such as live video, sensor outputs, alerts/warnings, file transfers and chat to support collaboration

4. Support multi-organization interoperability that is platform agnostic across organizational lines, such as among US Services, COCOMS, Joint Task Forces, Coalition and National Partners, as well as with and among civil authorities agencies and critical infrastructure

5. Provide interoperability that allows sovereign control by the owner of the communications assets and other media resources shared during a communication session

6. Provide an architecture of modular components that does not rely on a centralized server and is resilient in the event that some units lose IP connectivity with others in the network

7. Implement a system that is intuitive and easy to use, even by unskilled operators

8. Be operationally flexible to enable ad-hoc communications and collaboration

9. Be capable of handling dynamic mission command and tactical operations, from emergency events to large scale missions

10. Be secure and reliable with a PKI infrastructure, AES and related encryption, and easily integrated with Type 1 encryption devices


Seamless Communications, Video & Data: Horizontal & Vertical

WHAT MUTUALINK DOES

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Mutualink’s Drag & Drop Interface Increases Operational Effectiveness

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View Partner Force Members to Invite to Sessions

Dynamically Shape Comms Session

Drag & Drop Comms Assets into session

Chat File Image Share

UAV Video Share

Simulated Data - FOUO



Africa Endeavor 2012: Mutualink Interop of Multiple Radio Nets

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In addition to radio interoperability, video, phone, files and chat resources were also shared. Interoperability of the following radio systems was demonstrated:

Barrett – 2050 (shown below) Harris - AN/PRC-150(C) ICOM IC-M802 ICOM IC-2200H Vertex VX-1700 (Yaesu)

This Mutualink node includes: notebook-IWS, radio-RNIC, video-VNIC and phone-TNIC interfaces.


Connecting Disparate Radio Nets, with KG-250 INE Option



SOF Encrypted Unclass Mutual Link Encrypted National Encrypted

NATO SOCC AUS SOTG

AUS National Radio

Cell Phone

US National Radio

Partner Force TOC

Public Cell Phone Net

Mutualink R-NIC

Partner Force Radio

Strike Platform

SOF Virtual Private

Encrypted Network

ISR Platform

Mutualink Success Story – From NATO Commanders’ Brief, 2011

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US CAOC


JUICE 2013: Map of Mutualink GSEC Net Participants


Collaborative Secure Communications, VPN & Type 1: JUICE Exercise


New Jersey Example of State, Local & Critical Infrastructure Mutualink


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In 2012, there were 904 natural disasters worldwide resulting in over $170 Billion in losses. While this sounds incredible, it represents a typical year and explains why governments and international organizations continue to prioritize the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) mission. In this Use Case, an earthquake is first detected and reported by a series of seismic sensors. The sensors, which are linked to the Mutualink system, initiate an "Incident" in the emergency operations center where an officer dispatches a team of first responders and scrambles an alert helicopter to the scene. Then a survivor-teacher calls the emergency operations center to report her situation at a local school. The dispatcher immediately bridges the survivor-teacher’s phone call to the on-scene commander, helicopter crew, and others that have been invited into the Mutualink “Incident.” This group of personnel collaborates through their various methods of communication and multi-media to create a powerful interoperability session. A session that combines airborne search, on-scene assistance, medical response, and the ability to directly interface with a survivor in order to perform a highly successful and timely rescue operation.

Mutualink Secure Communications and Multimedia Tunneling

Standard First-Responder and Coalition Suite-B Deployments

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Bank

Internet Banking

Standard Public Safety Deployment

Coalition Suite-B Deployment


Operational Diagram: Multi-Force & Multi-Device Interoperability


Seamless Communications, Video & Data Across Systems

Addresses Sovereign Control Issues – enabling selective anywhere, anytime communications and information sharing

• Establishes a trusted, secure environment • Leverages legacy communications infrastructure • FMV and File sharing in selective and controlled environment

Reduces Complexity to Actionable Simplicity: • Fast set-up • Low Training Requirement • No complex rules set-up to manage infinitely complex iterations • Addresses a fundamental reality – host nations are not monolithic; they have complex inter-

agency issues at hand Rapidly Deploys and Scales in Communications Challenged Environments:

• Quick Bridging to Echelons, Indigenous Communications Systems and Local Agencies • Interoperability easily scales as additional elements enter the Area of Operations, including

Joint Forces, Coalition, Non-Static Partners, Host Nation and other Civilian Agencies, Homeland Security partners and Critical Infrastructure partners

Outcomes from DoD, NATO/Coalition and Homeland Security Usage:

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PROVEN & FIELD DEPLOYED Successful 4-phase DoD Evaluation – Irregular

Warfare Support, Counter Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO)

NATO SOF Solution of Choice for SOCC Deployed in AFG with US, UK, AUS, NZ, Polish SOTGs Extensive US Homeland Security & Public Safety Use

EFFECTIVE – EASY INSTALL, TRAIN & USE Initial installation in less than 2 Hours

• Minimal technical resource demand • Plug & Play

Train to mastery in minutes for diverse user MOS Easy to use & intuitive

• Reduces task overload • Viewable force structure • Always on, always available, day to day use

Auto-discovery – no administration

LOW COST Each Node is much less than the cost of a

single Next Generation Tactical Radio Leverages existing comms infrastructure Network Agnostic – uses any available IP

enabled bandwidth (Satellite, 3G/4G, Terrestrial)

DoD and GSA Acquisition-ready

Mutualink is Proven, Effective and Low Cost

SMALL, LIGHT, LOW POWER, LOW BANDWIDTH

¼ the size of a SINCGARS unit ¼ the weight of a SINCGARS unit 9-36 V DC, 16W Vehicle and Manpack capable Rack ready; 3 units in 1RU Operates on low bandwidth nets; Used in field over BGAN under 100K


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