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WORLD CONGRESS ON SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
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International Conference on
POLYMER CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING
November 21-22, 2019 | Singapore
Joint event on
Materials Science and Nanotechnology | Volume: 03
The fusion of material science, cyber-physical security and information science for
next generation tools for treaty verification, safeguards and non-proliferation
David Mascarenas
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
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rms controls treaties are vital for ensuring global
security. A guiding principle for the development of
these treaties is that they should be verifiable. Continuity-
of-knowledge of the state of treaty-verifiable items must
be maintained to ensure that they are not modified
or swapped out in a manner inconsistent with the
treaty. Verification of arms control treaties pose unique,
multidisciplinary technical challenges. The challenges
involve concerns related to cyber-physical security issues,
maintaining knowledge barriers, distributed sensor
networks, structural health monitoring, non-destructive
evaluation, and sensing. It is often the case that treaty
verification personnel only have limited time and physical
access to treaty-accountable items. In many cases the
treaty-accountable items spend the vast majority of
the time under the control of parties that might have
an interest in tampering with the treaty-accountable
items. Current technologies for verifying treaties do not
adequately address these challenges. This presentation will
focus on the development of technologies that intimately
combine material science with signal processing, machine
learning, and cyber-physical security to candidate tools
for the next generation of treaty verification. Specifically
we fill focus on the development of a remotely readable,
graphite-oxide tamper-evident seal and the potential
for the use of the magnetic Barkhausen noise effect to
establish unique fingerprints of nominally similar ferrous
components. Both of these technologies combine material
science with information science and security concepts.
Undoubtedly other research opportunities exist for
combining material science and information science to
enable new technologies not only for treaty verification,
but other commercial applications that require continuity-
of-knowledge of the state of physical objects.
e:
dmascarenas@lanl.govMater Sci Nanotechnol, Volume: 03
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