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www.mrcy.com Secure Military Grade SSD options Mercury's Secure Military Grade Secure SSDs are offered as TRRUST- Stor and ASURRE-Stor options. Figure 4. Rugged, Secure Military Grade SSD with ASURRE-Stor protection For twenty years prime contractors have trusted Mercury Secure Military Grade SSDs with TRRUST-Stor technologies for their land, air, and sea defense solutions. Our storage solutions range from the de facto 2.5" form-factor, to mSATA, XMC, mobile, VPX, and ultra compact packages. The ultra-compact package has a SWaP-optimized 32 x 22 mm footprint and rugged tin/lead solder ball BGA attach. ASURRE-Stor SSDs are engineered to the requirements of FIPS 140-2, CC, and CSfC making them ideally suited for the storage of classified, secret, and top secret data when used as a component in a 2-layer CSfC solution registered and approved by the NSA. TRRUST-Stor™ Mission Pak ultra-portable secure SSD with integrated security and performance-enhancing algorithms is similar in size and function to a commercial USB flash drive, but precision-engineered to withstand the harshest military operating environments while simultaneously protecting the most sensitive data from adversarial attack. The ASURRE-Stor variant of this product, with FIPS 140-2 certification and eligibility for the CSfC program, is planned. All NAND flash storage devices occasionally corrupt small pieces of data, particularly if the device is heavily utilized. SSDs mitigate this risk through the implementation of error correcting code (ECC) and NAND over-provisioning. Shorter-lived COTS SSDs include limited ECC and over-provisioning to maximize user capacity. Mercury's Secure SSDs feature advanced ECC and NAND over-provisioning that ensures data integrity in harsh military environments. Mercury implements proven, customizable, multi-layered power- loss protection. Our robust data protection approach, unlike other technologies, is temperature independent. Mercury's Secure Military SSDs feature a deterministic shut-down sequence that guarantees complete read/write operations that are in progress when the power fails. Trusted supply chain and longer lives Commercial and enterprise-grade SSDs are optimized for performance and cost. This business model drives design and production to low- cost centers outside of the USA. Defense microelectronics should be manufactured using trusted devices within the United States where trust issues are maintained under the consequence of law. Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) accreditation is the defense industry standard for a trusted supplier of microelectronics solutions. Mercury's portfolio of Military Grade Secure SSDs are all designed, coded, manufactured and supported from a domestic DMEA accredited facility. Innovation That Matters - Mercury Security and SSD Firsts Consumer and enterprise product life cycles are shorter than those in change control-sensitive military applications. Mercury maintains ECO control and product availability until components are no longer available, when end of life planning is initiated with our customers. Multiple key management modes External and isolated key fill ports User-refillable encryption keys after key purge All block sanitation Non-powered destruct capability Ruggedized connectors User-refillable encryption keys BGA attach Physical mode sanitization verification FIPS 197 certification for AES-256 XTS encryption First NIAP certified First HWFDE SSD for CSfC program Commercial SSD Secure Military Grade SSD • Security-driven materials and design • DMEA-Trusted, US manufacturer • Custom, US-built controller and IP • Multiple security key management modes • NIST certified cryptographic algorithms • Cost-driven materials and design • Foreign manufacturer • Foreign controller IP • Minimal security implementation • No Cryptographic validation • Destruct capability • Configurable sanitization • FIPS, CC Certification • CSfC Component Listed • Data integrity circuitry and algorithms Figure 3. Features of a Secure Military Grade SSD outpace even the best commercial SSD

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