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 Contents Front Matter INTRODUCTION Covert Tags Electronic Tags NETWORKED SENSORS FOR THE BATTLEFIELD PANEL 1 DISCUSSION APPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (MOLEAPPS) PROGRAM RFID TECHNOLOGY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES PANEL 2 DISCUSSION DESIGNING CHEMICAL SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC OLFACTION PANEL 3 DISCUSSION BIOSCIENCE IN THE NANOTECHNOLOGY OF TRACKING AND LOCATING PANEL 4 DISCUSSION VESTA/PARD TECHNOLOGY NANOSCALE DESIGN AND FABRICATION CONSIDERATIONS FOR PHOTONIC TAGS AND RADAR DEVICES PANEL 5 DISCUSSION PRESENTERS AGENDA ATTENDEES Appendix B Biographies of Committee Members Appendix C Acronyms Appendix D Statement of Task