SBIR/STTR Research Award
A DNA Taggant Watermarking System
Award amount
$99,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- EAGLE EYE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-04-30
- Contract end date
- 2005-01-30
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- AF04-124
Research abstract
We address a key challenge in many military and commercial systems: the tracking of materials and/or documents, and the certification of their origin(watermarking). We use libraries of taggants composed of synthetic DNA, where: (i) the number of distinct taggants are scalable to the millions and more, (ii) the taggants are not easily detectable without certain secret information, but (iii) with this information only a few taggant molecules are required for detection. Our project team has PI Dr Scott Norton with prior extensive experience in metallic-optical taggants and Dr John Reif, with a prior small scale demonstration of our DNA barcode taggant system.
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