Interoperable communications for Mission Partner Environments
Sovereign, interoperable and secure real time infrastructure for joint and coalition operations where every partner retains full control.
Providing sovereign and secure communications across allied forces.
Traditionally individual militaries have their own secure communications, but typically cannot support communications with other allied forces.
Mission Partner Environments (MPEs) provide the secure, interoperable infrastructure that enables military forces and their trusted partners to communicate, collaborate and exchange sensitive classified information across organisational and national boundaries.
An open standard that gives every partner control.
The Matrix open standard enables each participating nation or organisation to deploy and control their own sovereign-preserving communications solution. These separate deployments can then connect multilaterally using secure Matrix-based federation, across a highly resilient decentralised network.
There is no centralised network, no single point of control, and no nation holds the master keys.
The combination of Element and Matrix gives national security operators a secure, interoperable and resilient communications solution. It preserves digital sovereignty while enabling effective collaboration across government, mission partners and the defence industrial base.
The solution that makes it deployable
Element is the Matrix-based product stack that delivers a complete, military-grade MPE communications solution, from the user experience to the server infrastructure and classification boundaries.
Element Pro
Element’s flagship enterprise application, supporting MPE use-cases via Pro extensions, available across web, desktop, Android and iOS. Designed to meet the usability expectations of modern operations while meeting the security requirements of classified environments.
Classification labels
SPIF-managed cryptographically-bound STANAG 4774 classification labels on a per-message and per-room granularity.
Client-side policy enforcement
Enforce security policies directly on user devices.
Mobile device management
MDM controls across managed device fleets.
Certificate pinning
Ensures connection with the intended server.
GridView
Single pane of glass dashboarding.
Hardware token & X.509 auth
Capacity for hardware token and X.509 client TLS certificate authentication.
Whitelabel apps
Custom branding.
Element Server Suite Pro (ESS Pro)
The server-side infrastructure that enables self-hosting, configurations and policy controls to keep each partner nation's deployment sovereign and accreditation-ready.
Server-side Policy Enforcement
Server-side Policy Enforcement Point for STANAG 4774 CMLS labelling.
Federation control
Closed or open federation with full admin control over connections, end-users and access management.
LTS releases
Long-term support releases with SLA commitments.
Advanced security advisories
Advanced security advisories for seamless updates
Advanced identity and access
Identity and access management, auditing and admin capabilities.
Deployment options
Air-gapped, self-hosted and hosted deployment options.
Cross Domain Gateways
Securely connect high-trust and low-trust environments, decrypting, inspecting and re-encrypting data.
Enforce strict data loss protection and content filtering rules at every classification boundary.
Replace manual information sharing with controlled, auditable, real time flows between high-side and low-side networks.
Secure Border Gateways
Control internal and external federation at the network boundary.
Rules-based application layer firewall with federation controls to securely manage your Matrix network.
Determine and manage who can connect, to manage the risk of unauthorised access, data breaches, and any malicious activities.
Built for how coalition operations actually work
From strategic headquarters to the tactical edge, Element supports the full operational spectrum of the MPE use cases.
Multinational coalition HQ
Each partner nation runs its own federated ESS Pro server. Personnel communicate across national boundaries in real time, with each nation retaining digital sovereignty and full administrative control over its own deployment.
Cross domain intelligence sharing
Element’s Cross Domain Gateways act as a secure policy-enforced bridge between classification levels. High-side and low-side networks exchange controlled information without manual transfer or removable media.
Exercises and surge operations
Set up a federated MPE environment in hours, not months. When exercises conclude, partner connections dissolve cleanly, and each nation's data remains entirely within its own infrastructure.
Tactical edge and DDIL operations
Support field units, vessels and vehicles operating in denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environments. Element’s low-bandwidth and ultra-low-bandwidth transports and mesh-ready architecture keep teams connected where conventional messaging fails.
Interagency and NGO coordination
Humanitarian response operations need to extend to civilian agencies and NGOs. Partners can be added through multi-tenancy, managed hosting or each party being able to spin up its own deployment.
End-user assurance
Each partner connects Element to their own directory system to carefully control which end users join, and under what conditions. Federated identity that respects each nation's own access policies.
STANAG 4774 labelling and policy enforcement built in
Element Pro supports STANAG 4774.7 Confidentiality Metadata Labelling Syntax (CMLS) for cryptographically enforced data centric security. Labels are applied at every level - server, room, and individual message.
On the server side, ESS Pro provides a Policy Enforcement Point for integration with external Policy Decision systems. Full SIEM integration ensures that every policy decision can be ingested for a complete forensic audit trail across the MPE.
Fully isolated. Zero external dependencies.
Element Pro and ESS Pro operate in air-gapped environments without dependencies on internet connections. The full MPE capability stack, running entirely within your own classified or private network.
XMPP and existing bridging.
Bridge to JChat (XMPP) and other existing military communications platforms enabling interoperability, without requiring partners to replace existing infrastructure.
Also trusted by allied defence and government for low-side communication
A sovereign, federated messenger for NATO and its member nations
NATO is addressing the issues caused by consumer messaging apps by introducing NI²CE messenger - a sovereign and secure low-side messenger based on Element - that is providing interoperability and autonomy internally and for its members.
Secure, sovereign messaging for over 100,000 active service members
The German Armed Forces operate a sovereign Element deployment as the standard for real time communications, hosted entirely within national infrastructure.
Organisations with requirements for interoperability, federation and data sovereignty should consider Element.
