Solution Guide: Fly-away Kit

A Flyaway kit must enable agile rapid response by CPT teams. These kits need to easily scale up and scale down while traveling to meet the mission and be able to respond at a moment’s notice, and not have to carefully schedule additional travel assets. Fly-away kits must:

Be "carry-on" accessible for commercial aircraft, staying close to the analyst
Lifted by a single person
Easily transported by rental car, sedan, or SUV vehicles
Make travel less conspicuous by carrying smaller items
Reduce operation costs, by simplifying procurement
Reduce travel costs by leveraging commercial travel options
Reduce setup time & tear down time
Reduce size, so less space used on the site/location, expanding the potential sites where space is a constraint

Legacy FAK tools have typically been too large, consist of too many components and peripherals, and are vulnerable to shock damage. In addition, the lack of modularity of legacy tools do not allow the flexibility to support various missions and subordinate commands simultaneously. Legacy tools have been costly and complex to use, which sometimes include large rack servers and 1U network TAPs, making transportation difficult:

Not agile — transport has to be carefully planned and scheduled, subject to delays
Expensive to transport
Subject to damage
Subject to separation of critical data & equipment from the CPT teams
3-4+ person lift
Large, bulky, takes up a lot of space — cannot go to certain locations based on size/weight
Cannot easily transport on commercial airline, or via car or standard vehicles
Complex to setup & complex to tear down
Not easily configurable

Pay-off Points: There is a critical need for less expensive tools where personnel can engage quickly with minimal training. The ideal cyber Fly-away Kit provides a lighter, smaller, shock-tolerant, faster and more capable suite than the current legacy tools in use today.