Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory Joins TSCP

HERNDON, Va., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), an independent research and development (R&D) institute in the Netherlands, has joined Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) in the silver membership category. NLR is the latest member to recognize the role TSCP plays in developing and deploying secure information sharing solutions in highly sensitive environments and commit to contributing to the integration and adoption of TSCP standards.

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NLR brings a rich history of collaborative engineering and secure collaboration to the Dutch aerospace industry. Through membership in TSCP, NLR expects to support aerospace and defence (A&D) industry partners with testing and guidance, as the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (NL MoD) – a TSCP government member – stipulates secure collaboration solution requirements as a critical component of the procurement process.

"The NL MoD is highly aware of the challenges posed by controlling data streams in collaboration with our global supply chain," said Rob Boots, NL MoD TSCP Governance Board member. "As an independent institute, NLR will play an increasingly important role in driving TSCP specifications across the entire A&D supply chain."

"We are proud to join TSCP in their efforts to enable secure information sharing," said Bart-Jan Freriks, Business Manager Aerospace, NLR. "As a proponent of the TSCP vision, NLR will contribute to the effort of creating interoperable specifications and solutions that enable re-use in a cost effective manner across multiple programs."

As security threats to critical assets around the world increase and become more sophisticated, the need for a common, robust approach to ensuring the protection of information escalates. Meeting this need is the core mission of TSCP – the A&D industry's consortium dedicated to identifying, prioritizing, developing, and testing requirements for all aspects of information-sharing – from identity management and secure email to document sharing with identity federation.

"We're pleased to welcome NLR to TSCP," said Keith Ward, TSCP chairman. "We strongly believe that with all parties working together toward a common goal, we can reduce the risk of information security breaches, accelerate secure information sharing across A&D organisations, and reduce overall program costs."

TSCP members include global government and defence agencies, leading A&D companies, and solutions providers. For more information, please visit www.tscp.org.

About TSCP

TSCP is the only global government-industry partnership specifically focused on designing solutions to address the most critical issues facing the A&D industry: mitigating the compliance, complexity, cost and IT security risks inherent in large-scale, multi-national collaborative programs. TSCP was founded in 2002, and has delivered several specifications and guidance documents on securing A&D supply chain data. The group today focuses on identity federation policies and governance. TSCP is open to government organizations, prime contractors, integrators, suppliers and member trade groups. For more information, please visit www.tscp.org.  

About NLR

The Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaarlaboratorium (NLR) is the Aerospace R&D institute of the Netherlands, supporting both industries and governments, national and worldwide in innovative solutions for present and the future.

Founded in 1919 with 700 employees, of which more than 50% with an academic degree, NLR has a long and distinct track record in Aerospace R&D. NLR is independent and not-for-profit and works closely with its customers and partners, ranging from aircraft manufacturers to universities.

For more information, please visit our website: www.nlr.nl.

SOURCE TSCP

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