On August 31st, 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Standard Grant to three University of Maryland researchers for supporting their project. This project uses enterprise network models to disrupt illicit counterfeit part supply chains for critical systems. The research team includes Prof. Peter A Sandborn and Dr. Diganta Das from CALCE and Prof. William Lucyshyn from the School of Public Policy. The team includes the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
This project will also develop methods of disrupting the counterfeit hardware networks for critical systems guided by socio-technical network development and modeling, and through consideration of the counterfeiting network’s connections to other illicit trafficking networks. The network models developed will consider both commercial transactions and military acquisition systems to enable identification of possible points of disruption in those networks. The model for the counterfeit part network developed in this project will form an important and necessary enabler for possible future blockchain-based solutions and is an essential component of a digital twin for the supply chain for critical systems.
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