A little over a year ago, an initiative by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) launched, aiming to sharply mitigate the risks of counterfeit electronic parts entering the military supply system. The effort featured SigNature®DNA, an advanced anti-counterfeit technology platform.
- DLA requires suppliers of certain high-reliability microelectronics to mark their products with a taggant called SigNature DNA.
- The two forms of DNA taggant differ in the covert optical array associated with the DNA.
- The value measured in human lives protected, and human lives possibly saved.
- The DLA program, featuring SigNature DNA, has already now begun removing this risk from the system and protecting those lives.
- While a comprehensive solution to counterfeit electronics is a complicated proposition, still in the talking stage in the industry, this practical program using SigNature DNA has already begun and is already hitting its "mark.