The emergence of nanotechnology as a major science and technology research topic has sparked substantial interest by the intelligence community. In particular the community is interested both in the potential for nanotechnology to assist intelligence operations and threats it could create. To explore these questions, the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center asked the National Research Council to conduct a number of activities to illustrate the potential for nanotechnology to address key intelligence community needs. The second of these was a workshop to explore how nanotechnology might enable advances in sensing and locating technology. This report presents a summary of that workshop. In includes an overview of security technologies, and discussions of systems, natural chemical/biological tags, passive chemical/biological tags, and radio/radar/optical tags.
- Summary of the Sensing and Positioning Technology Workshop of the Committee on Nanotechnology…
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- TOPIC 1: SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES OVERVIEW
- SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES OVERVIEW AND APPLICATIONS
- Biometric Tags
- Covert Tags
- Forensic Level Tags
- Product Characteristic Tags
- Coding Tags
- Electronic Tags
- NETWORKED SENSORS FOR THE BATTLEFIELD
- PANEL 1 DISCUSSION
- TOPIC 2: SYSTEMS
- APPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (MOLEAPPS) PROGRAM
- RFID TECHNOLOGY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
- REVIEW OF EXISTING AND POTENTIAL STANDOFF EXPLOSIVE DETECTION TECHNIQUES
- PANEL 2 DISCUSSION
- TOPIC 3: NATURAL CHEM/BIO TAGS
- DESIGNING CHEMICAL SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC OLFACTION
- MICROSENSOR DEVELOPMENT
- PANEL 3 DISCUSSION
- TOPIC 4: PASSIVE CHEM/BIO TAGS
- ISOTOPIC AND FLUORESCENT TAGGANTS
- BIOSCIENCE IN THE NANOTECHNOLOGY OF TRACKING AND LOCATING
- PANEL 4 DISCUSSION
- TOPIC 5: RADIO/RADAR/OPTICAL TAGS
- VESTA/PARD TECHNOLOGY
- COVERT RADAR TAGS AND APPLICATIONS
- NANOSCALE DESIGN AND FABRICATION CONSIDERATIONS FOR PHOTONIC TAGS AND RADAR DEVICES
- DYNAMIC OPTICAL TAGS
- PANEL 5 DISCUSSION
- Appendix A Workshop Presenters, Agenda, and Attendees
- PRESENTERS
- AGENDA
- ATTENDEES
- Appendix B Biographies of Committee Members
- Appendix C Acronyms
- Appendix D Statement of Task