Army Key Management Systems (AKMS):

The Army Key Managment Systems (AKMS) automates frequency management and COMSEC management operations. It eliminates paper keying material, hardcopy SOI, and associated time and resource-intensive courier distribution.

LCMS is the Army's position in the four-tiered Electronic Key
Management System (EKMS). The EKMS is a key management, COMSEC material distribution, and logistics support system. The National Security Agency (NSA) established the EKMS program to meet multiple objectives, which include:

• Supplying electronic key to COMSEC devices in a secure
  and timely manner
• Providing COMSEC managers with an automated system
  capable of ordering, generation, production, distribution,
  storage, security accounting, and access control

Automated Communications Engineering Software (ACES) is
the frequency management portion of AKMS. ACES has been
designated by the Military Communications Electronics Board
(MCEB) as the joint standard for use by all services in development of frequency management and cryptonet planning. ACES
will replace the legacy RBECS and will become the Joint
electronic interface to all spectrum management, ISYSCON,
Spectrum XXI, RBECS, Operational Tasking Command
(OPTASKCOM), Air Tasking Order (ATO), and Space ATO
workstations.

The Data Transfer Device (DTD) provides an improved net-
control device to automate cryptonet control operations for
communications networks employing electronically-keyed
COMSEC equipment.