Ballistic Missile Defense Innovative Anti-Tamper Techniques

Irvine Sensors Corporation (ISC) proposes to develop a new innovative anti-tamper (AT) technique that demonstrates the capability to delay, make economically infeasible, the reverse engineering or compromise of critical U.S. BMDS weapon system technologies. This new technique is a "Memory Device Eraser Module" (MDEM). The MDEM provides an innovative AT scheme that protects the contents of information that use memory. The MDEM guards and erases the memory devices on demand in the event of tampering. The MDEM appears as any standard electronic component and is not dependent on system resources (power) to ensure its functionality. The ability to reverse engineer the MDEM is economically infeasible causing weeks (months) of analysis to replicate due to the non-standard packaging technique and inability to understand the physical operations of the MDEM due to an innovative technique. The architecture of the MDEM is "open" supporting integration into any weapon system platform without affecting the performance of their real-time processing requirements. A breadboard model is to be developed that demonstrates the MDEM's anti-tamper techniques and proof-of-concept by protecting an algorithm or key within the memory structure in Phase I. Results from the Phase I model will be used in designing the prototype in Phase II.