Editing Communications security (section)

== DoD Electronic Key Management System ==
The [[Electronic Key Management System]] (EKMS) is a [[United States Department of Defense]] (DoD) key management, COMSEC material distribution, and logistics support system. The [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) established the EKMS program to supply electronic key to COMSEC devices in securely and timely manner, and to provide COMSEC managers with an automated system capable of ordering, generation, production, distribution, storage, security accounting, and access control.

The Army's platform in the four-tiered EKMS, AKMS, automates frequency management and COMSEC management operations. It eliminates paper keying material, hardcopy [[Signal operating instructions]] (SOI) and saves the time and resources required for courier distribution. It has 4 components:
* LCMS provides automation for the detailed accounting required for every COMSEC account, and electronic key generation and distribution capability.
* ACES is the [[Spectrum management|frequency management]] portion of AKMS. ACES has been designated by the Military Communications Electronics Board as the joint standard for use by all services in development of frequency management and crypto-net planning.
* CT3 with DTD software is in a fielded, ruggedized hand-held device that handles, views, stores, and loads SOI, Key, and electronic protection data.  DTD provides an improved net-control device to automate crypto-net control operations for communications networks employing electronically keyed COMSEC equipment.
* SKL is a hand-held PDA that handles, views, stores, and loads SOI, Key, and electronic protection data.