Applied DNA Sciences Inc (APDN)

[mcsharkey]

Alrighty_Rocket, I'm_thrilled_we_got a_presentation_seat_at November's DMSMS* shindig hosted by GIDEP**. And really appreciate you tracking this.

IMHO, this November shindig foreshadows our breakout moment in December:DoD & DLA establish Applied DNA Sciences as Single Point Uniform Authentication Operation across all Services. First mentioned in September's free basing martini and cocaine cocktail party for deep pockets at LIOS LIOS conference in San Francisco.

This is a damn difficult trail to follow, I got a citation to one of your (Rocket) posts "Dr. H mentions "DLA single point (...)" listen from 03.40 min - to 4.40 and beyond @Link to Post No. 41533

Let's get a couple of them introductory abbreviations delineated here, or some shit.

 •DMSMS* Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages BIG, BIG Logistical concern to maintain aging systems

 •GIDEP** Government - Industry Data Exchange Program See the GAO report down below, this agency created early in the Commercial Off The Shelf initiative from the mid-90s. Falling flat on it's asset now.

Conference is called to address the concerns raised by Industrial members of our Military/Industrial Complex (Thanks Dwight Eisenhower on new rules YIP brought our attention with September's passage of the DoD Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) on counterfeit electronic parts.

Here's a citation from a trade site article that is representative of private industry reaction:Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
New DFARS Clauses Target Counterfeit Electronic Parts
Emily Theriault & David Gallacher
September 21, 2016
Link to Full Articl, couple of excerpts here
On August 2, 2016, the Department of Defense (“DOD”) rolled out new requirements for defense contractors that provide electronic parts and assemblies containing electronic parts.

The new rules impose significant risks on DOD contractors....When an original source is not available, contractors are now required essentially to “vouch” ...... These new rules come very close to imposing a near “strict liability” standard on DOD contractors, asking them to essentially guarantee the supply chain. Cross your heart and hope to die.
The age-old principle of caveat emptor (“let the buyer beware”) About F----ing time. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and a couple of others are going to be presenting a couple of paper trail processes to ensure the parts are authentic. Govt Accounting Office (GAO) has blasted the reg as driving up part costs significantly because of the paper work alone. And there's always weak links.

Damn, lost the link to GAO paper on the cost DFARS reg adds if using paper work trail. Got a link to a February 2016 GAO white paper that absolutely blasts the accounting trailCOUNTERFEIT PARTS
DOD Needs to Improve Reporting and Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk Report to Congressional Committees
February 2016
GAO-16-236 & theLINK HERE. Our DNA tagging method is mentioned in the middle fairly positively. The rest of the paper cites events when policy was by passed BECAUSE, paper trails are too damn clumsy. Too many points in the supply line where local ad hoc measures thrown together. Anybody familiar with some spread sheet (Xcel) or database (Access) from first year IT class throws something out and everybody is happy. Till the kid has to maintain records he has no ideal what they mean.

Bringing this article back cause it's a good one. I'm going to credit $10Mill or Yip with finding it. Whoever first posted it: FIVE THUMBS UP released early last year on an electronic mfgr./industry trade site.

Here's an excerpt with some very positive features addressing the paper work provided by SigNATURE®DNADLA Shifts DNA's Role in Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts......SMT Vice President Tom Sharp concedes that, in hindsight, the DLA might have been better off launching its DNA marking program in-house from the start. Yet he applauds the agency for taking a “bold step” to improve the quality of the military’s parts supply.

Sharp says that a sometimes overlooked aspect of the DNA-marking program is its ability to identify and link each batch of chips to databases that can track a host of product data throughout the parts’ lives. “The general view was that DNA marking was going to stop counterfeits,” he says. “But DNA is also going to provide a lot of important provenance information.”Really a good article for an overview on what happened within the electronic manufacturing sector when the DLA imposed the 2012 mandate for FSC 5962 Semiconductors (Field Programmable Gate Arrays, embedded system controllers, microprocessor with Reduced Instruction Set).

Here's the LINK to the full article. The boycott by industry described in it is what the DoD hopes to avoid with all the options being shown on the table then.

There'll be dozens of presenters, couple of SISTER technologies include:

Battelle Barricade, an Electronic Component Authentication Technology

Device Wear-out Impacts & Applications Using Radio-Frequency Distinct Native Attributes (RF-DNA) Discrimination

Both of these platforms are ELEGANT and fairly labor intensive. Items under test have to be "INSTALLED" within a replicated "ACTUAL USE" hookup holding a lot of software/program interface points.

During test, the diagnostic systems monitor the Electro Magnetic Spectrum, making sure the multiple sidebands, tones, noise all replicate what the "module" is supposed to generate. IMHO, this is similar to our Fiber®TYPING tests (Non Destruct Test, NDT, kind of a fun term like Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD).

Point is we don't FiberType the whole bale. Don't think Battelle Barricad or RF-DNA (Distinct Native Attributes) can be run on each Integrated Circuit (IC).

Nuther exciting portion of the November shindig are the extensive amount of presentations on 3D printing technology (labeled additive manufacturing for the snobs in the group).

Rocket, this is where our joy juice can be mixed right in with all the polymer/monomer compounds used to PRINT out your Ferrari!

Alrighty, my BS is getting deep.

This damn DSMS sum zhit nur nuther seems great to me. But Who TF am I.
GLTA
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Mike Sharkey