Arlington, Va.-based Federated Wireless and the University of Colorado Boulder have received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance new technologies to secure military and government communications over 5G networks.
The Phase 2 grant under the NSF’s Convergence Accelerator program is to build a commercial product by combining the different components they created via initial funding of $750,000 in September 2022.
“The goal of the work is to ensure a range of users, from U.S. soldiers to commercial enterprises, can use 5G cellular networks in other countries, without those countries being able to extract valuable operational information,” said Kurt Schaubach, Federated Wireless’ chief technology officer.
‘GHOST’ Project
Federated Wireless plans to support the so-called GHOST operations — 5G Hidden Operations through Securing Traffic — via technologies that disguise and anonymize user identities and traffic to prevent surveillance.
“GHOST addresses the core challenge of providing secure communications over untrusted networks,” said Keith Gremban, lead researcher on the project for University of Colorado. “At the end of this phase, we’ll demonstrate a working integrated prototype that demonstrates GHOST concepts.”
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Founded in 2012, Federated Wireless develops and installs private and converged networks, based on 4G and 5G technologies. Such networks enable several companies to run their own customized, and secure, communications networks inside industrial sites, campuses or business parks.
VMware among Customers
Federated Wireless’ recent customers include virtualization software maker VMware, which signed up in August. Federated Wireless has raised $210.7 million from investors, including Boston-based Allied Minds and Marblehead, Mass.-based Pennant Equity Partners.
CEO Iyad Tarazi, who previously was vice president of Network Development at Sprint,heads Federated Wireless. At Sprint, he led the mobile carrier’s Network Vision modernization project. Tarazi has previously worked at Nextel and MCI. He has a Masters in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University and a B.S.in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
