HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exostar, whose cloud-based solutions enable secure, cost-effective business-to-business collaboration, today announced its suite of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, including its Supply Chain Platform (SCP), Federated Identity Service (FIS), and Managed Access Gateway (MAG), are being deployed for Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).
HII became an independent company earlier this year. As part of that transaction, NNS needed to transition its supplier collaboration activities to a new electronic tool. About 500 suppliers will now collaborate with their NNS counterparts via the following components of the Exostar solution suite:
- SCP – Processes all Purchase Orders/Changes and responses, as well as electronic Requests for Quote and responses. SCP also includes modules such as inventory management, demand planning, and business intelligence that empower NNS to expand and scale functional depth and breadth in the future.
- FIS – Handles the issuance of the Medium Level of Assurance (MLOA) hardware digital certificates and the FIPS 140-2 Level USB hardware tokens individuals will require to access SCP. Because these credentials are standards-compliant, suppliers are well-positioned to reuse them to reach applications from other customers connected to Exostar’s Identity Hub.
- MAG – Controls access to all applications connected to the Exostar Identity Hub, including SCP, by enforcing strong two-factor authentication. MAG ensures NNS and its suppliers operate in a more secure environment, verifying identities by confirming the validity of both username/password and the MLOA/USB hardware credentials.
Applications in the Exostar solution suite also will support NNS’s business processes to share scorecards, coded notes/terms and conditions, and other documents with suppliers. In turn, suppliers can open discussion forums with buyers and securely deliver documents.
“NNS needed to quickly move its suppliers to an alternative solution, without sacrificing security, functionality, or performance,” said Dan Pfeifle, Exostar’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “With Exostar, NNS is getting a cost-effective, integrated solution with the scalability to accommodate growth and the flexibility to address evolving requirements. Suppliers benefit from an improved user experience and access to the Exostar ecosystem, where they can consistently engage with NNS and others.”
About Huntington Ingalls Industries
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Employing nearly 38,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding. For more information, visit HII on the Web at www.huntingtoningalls.com.
About Exostar
Exostar powers secure business-to-business information sharing, collaboration and business process integration throughout the value chain. Exostar supports the complex trading needs of many of the world's largest companies in aerospace and defense, life sciences, and other industries. Exostar’s cloud-based identity assurance products and business applications reduce risk, improve agility and strengthen trading partner relationships and profitability for over 70,000 companies worldwide, including BAE Systems, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co. and Rolls-Royce. For more information, please visit www.exostar.com.