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Guardian of the chips | Ep 17

Feb 2, 2018

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  • Kerry Bernstein, program manager, Microsystems Technology Office
  • Host: Ivan Amato, Public Affairs

Ensuring reliability and integrity of microelectronic chips against tampering and counterfeiting

Electrical engineer Kerry Bernstein, a program manager since 2012 with the agency’s Microsystems Technology Office, chronicles how his decades of experience in the trenches of the microelectronics manufacturing world drives what he does at DARPA. 

He is all about ensuring the reliability and integrity of the microelectronic chips the country needs and uses in just about every military and civilian setting you can think of. With electronics manufacturing distributed over so many countries and manufacturing facilities now, the threat of tampering, counterfeiting, and other nefarious actions has become more complex than ever. 

For his part, Bernstein has been shepherding the development of some of the highest technology there is—in tiny glitter-sized packages no less—to keep our electronics supply chain safe and sound.

 

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