Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Diane D McClatchy

Kevin J Delaney

James P Mitchell

Rolf Stefani

Scott J Zogg

Mark A Bortz

Matthew Michael Lorch

Subhashish Chakravarty

Fraser R Chisholm

Adam Mottram

Robert L Lentz

Joseph G Razo

A system and method. The system may include a first computing device implemented in a vehicle that is a first node of a distributed blockchain ledger network. The first computing device may include a first processor and a first computer readable medium. The first processor may be configured to: maintain a first instance of a distributed blockchain ledger; receive data for entry in the first instance of the distributed blockchain ledger; write a record including the data in the first instance of the distributed blockchain ledger; determine a data link for forwarding the record to other nodes of the distributed blockchain ledger network; forward the record to the other nodes of the distributed blockchain ledger network, wherein the other nodes include a second computing device offboard of the vehicle, the second computing device configured to maintain a second instance of the distributed blockchain ledger; and validate the record.

Distributed blockchain ledger for vehicular systems

A system and method are provided for tracking access. At least one passive wireless identification device is provided at a personnel access point. Communication is established between a mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device when the mobile device passes the personnel access point. Occurrences of the established communication between the mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device are separately communicated to a remote data collection device. The occurrences of the established communication between the mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device are recorded in the remote data collection device. Data based on the recorded occurrences of the established communication between the mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device is output from the remote data collection device.

Tracking personnel access to aircraft on the ground

A system and method are provided for implementing a security construct for downloading, delivering and protecting large amounts of data for transfer to an aircraft upload capability in a short period of time, including between individual legs of a flight for a particular aircraft or fleet of aircraft. Large data packages include In Flight Entertainment and Electronic Flight Bag data. The data is downloaded at an available rate using wired communication paths communicating with various data sources via communication networks to a mobile communication device. The data is secured in the mobile communication device according to particular encryption schemes acceptable to data content providers. The mobile communication device securely holds the data for carriage to the aircraft where wired communication is established to upload the data in available abbreviated amounts of time in a manner that is not dependent on the availability of wireless communicating bandwidth.

Advance mobile communications gateway with satcom backhaul access and a modularized data security system and method for data and secure key distribution to aircraft

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Annapolis, MD, United States of America

Diane D McClatchy