Summary of the Sensing and Positioning Technology Workshop of the Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community

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.Table of ContentsFront MatterINTRODUCTIONCovert TagsElectronic TagsNETWORKED SENSORS FOR THE BATTLEFIELDPANEL 1 DISCUSSIONAPPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (MOLEAPPS) PROGRAMRFID TECHNOLOGY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGESPANEL 2 DISCUSSIONDESIGNING CHEMICAL SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC OLFACTIONPANEL 3 DISCUSSIONBIOSCIENCE IN THE NANOTECHNOLOGY OF TRACKING AND LOCATINGPANEL 4 DISCUSSIONVESTA/PARD TECHNOLOGYNANOSCALE DESIGN AND FABRICATION CONSIDERATIONS FOR PHOTONIC TAGS AND RADAR DEVICESPANEL 5 DISCUSSIONPRESENTERSAGENDAATTENDEESAppendix B Biographies of Committee Members Appendix C Acronyms Appendix D Statement of Task