Time Anomaly Detection Appliqué (TADA) is a mission-enabling innovation developed at MITRE to provide a reliable, real-time notification of a timing discrepancy. TADA can protect military, government, and civilian infrastructure that utilizes time, frequency, and time pulses derived from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers. TADA provides an alarm when the time, frequency, or timing pulses derived from the GNSS receivers deviate from the expected values.
TADA is specifically designed to protect users from time-spoofing attacks. With TADA, the network or system operator is alerted when two specific timing sources begin to significantly differ.
By making timing desynchronization detectable, TADA enables missions to succeed in an environment where GNSS provided time is compromised or untrustworthy. TADA enables the cost-effective delivery of critical mission capabilities, even in the face of timing anomalies. TADA’s small form-factor solution can be easily deployed onto existing systems while preserving investment in network infrastructure, and it operates with little or no impact on the users’ experience.
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