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[mcsharkey]

We are not alone:). INFO ONLY here. AND my normal BS. I'm kind of embracing sister technologies being developed for anti-counterfeiting measure in the electronic sector. I do feel our model with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and our partnership with an electronic module casing manufacturer is about the right track for us.

Modern weapon systems from backpack radio/communications, humvees, tanks, flight and interceptors all comprised of compact modules installed within sealed cases in a densly packed computer. Encased modules have to be shielded to prevent data crosstalk/white noise from ElectroMagnetic Interference, Radiation, Emissions, all kind of physics here. In electronics, you have to have magnetism, radiation emissions.

Yip posted about the Battelle consortium coming up with fairly elegant systems they're developing for reading through the noise and analyzing operational modules, seeing if any infiltration of a counterfeit module is causing it's electromagnetic finger print to be out of whack.

This is a sister technology. Testing an active circuit/module IMO, we can work with it cause we don't test an active circuit. Something with a heart beat or a wave form.

This is a citation from a recent piece I came across on sub-miniature implants called dielets being developed through DARPA grants. We've been aware of these. Nuther sister technology.

My take on dielets is they're like an autoimmune sensor/nerve ending in electronics. Able to determine when some microcomponent in a module is acting up or invasive. Possibly another elegant sister technology. INFO ONLY here.

Anti-Counterfeiting Update: DARPA’s Chip and DoD’s Revised Regulations
10.21.2015 // Murray Slovick // Passives

"Last year the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) requested proposals for a 100x100 micron chip (a "dielet") that could be attached to or packaged with an IC to combat counterfeiting. The campaign is known as Supply Chain Hardware Integrity of Electronics Defense, or SHIELD (see
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http://www.ttiinc.com/object/me-slovick-20140710.htm[/url][tag]"DoD’s Anti-Counterfeiting Battle Plan; DARPA Seeks a Tech Solution"[/tag]). SHIELD would equip an IC with a permanent, unique, and unclonable identifier that would be nearly impossible to alter or copy.

Earlier this year DARPA awarded three contracts to technology suppliers as part of its SHIELD anti-counterfeiting program. Northrop Grumman Systems received a $12.3 million (m) contract, SRI International a $6.8m contract and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory of MIT was the recipient of a $4.1m contract, all to help develop the tiny components that could be used to identify counterfeit or otherwise illicit electronic parts...."

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We have our own elegant solutions. Really fitting well (I feel) in the agricultural commodities and synthetic compounds, materials and fabric side of things with both geno-typing methods, and tagging synthetics where you ain't going to find a genome.
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Mike Sharkey