SMT Corporation Will Mark Microchips with SigNature DNA

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• SMT will be joining an eighteen-month, second-phase pilot program sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency. The pilot is demonstrating APDN’s technology at commercial scale.
• The entrance of SMT into the pilot comes on the heels of an amendment passed by the U.S. Senate to significantly strengthen protections against the wave of counterfeit electronic parts coming into the defense supply system. The amendment would require, among many other provisions, that military suppliers deploy counterfeit detection and avoidance systems such as the one under pilot. The amendment passed on November 29 and will next move to the House.
• The expanded pilot program will now demonstrate the delivery of what Dr. James A. Hayward, President and CEO of APDN, calls a “one-two punch.”
• Until now, the pilot program has concentrated on newly minted microchips, showing that DNA marking in production makes it possible to identify unequivocally the originality of microchips all along the supply chain. In this way, the system ferrets out those chips which have been altered by unknown third parties. Electronics firms, sub-assembly suppliers, weapons manufacturers or the DOD, all of which use the chips in their products, can then forensically test the DNA code. Rapid reading techniques permit the chips to be screened for APDN’s marks in seconds.
• Now SMT will also use the same APDN SigNature DNA product on existing chips. The mark will certify the results of the SMT screening process for microchips already in circulation and provided to SMT’s defense and aerospace customers.

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