Trusted Integrated Circuit Procurement for Space Assets

ABSTRACT: BT Engineering proposes a three pronged approach to prevent and adversary from compromising military hardware and particularly space assets. This proposal deals primarily with preventing the means of triggering a malignancy built into the system. We propose three methods that, if used together, can severely frustrate an adversaries attempt to"find the kill switch"even if the surreptitious hardware has already been built into the system. Each of the means are small, lightweight, power efficient, and offer other advantages to the designer. BENEFIT: The means proposed to prevent the trigging of an engineered malignancy each have great commercial potential in their own right.