June 25, 2004 - Spread Concepts demonstrates Secure Spread in the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID) 2004.

JWID is an annual event sponsored by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that enables U.S. combatant commands and the international community to investigate command and control, communications and computer solutions designed to meet key objectives. JWID took place from June 14-25, 2004.

Spread Concepts was selected by DARPA to demonstrate the Secure Spread security and delivery guarantees in JWID 2004. Spread Concepts successfully created a Windows chat demo program, utilizing the Secure Spread Toolkit to provide secure messaging between multiple agencies in different security domains.

During JWID, the Secure Spread Chat application was deployed over 6 sites and a total of 28 machines; 7 human participants and 70 robotic participants used the system to hold conversations across 30 changing chat groups. The average load on the system was 144,000 chat messages per hour sent across 30+ groups. The combination of user and robotic chat participants was used to demonstrate Secure Spread's inherent scalability and performance. An artificially induced temporary network partition was introduced. In all cases, each side of the partition was able to continue secure conversations with users on their side of the network. This demonstrated Secure Spread's lack of single point of failure architecture.

JWID 2004 involved 25 countries, military services and government agencies participating in a scripted scenario over a global network. JWID 2004 tested and evaluated technologies and capabilities to exchange information over a global network among agencies, services, U.S. combatant commands and coalition partners. More information about JWID 2004 can be found at http://www.jwid.js.mil/.