Threat intrusions to enterprise computing systems have led to a formulation of guarded enterprise systems. The approach
was to put in place steel gates and prevent hostile entities from entering the enterprise domain. The current complexity
level has made the fortress approach to security implemented throughout the defense, banking, and other high trust
industries unworkable. The alternative security approach called Enterprise Level Security (ELS) is the result of a
concentrated fourteen year program of pilots and research. The primary identity credential for ELS is the Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) certificate, issued to the individual who is provided with a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card
with a hardware chip for storing the private key. All sessions are preceded by a PKI mutual authentication and a Transport
Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 communication pipeline is established. This process was deemed to provide a high enough
identity assurance to proceed. However, mobile ad hoc networking allows entities to dynamically connect and reconfigure
connections to make use of available networking resources in a changing environment. These networks range from tiny
sensors setting up communications based on a random or unknown configuration to aircraft communicating with each
other, the ground, and satellites. Scenarios have differing requirements in terms of setup, reconfiguration, power, speed,
and range. This paper presents an adaptation of the ELS principles to the mobile ad hoc scenario.
