Matthew Kay

Bio: Matt Kay is the Trusted Microelectronics Chief Engineer for Flight Systems Division at NSWC Crane, and has served in numerous roles over his 11 year career with the Navy.  He serves as a subject matter expert in the area of trusted microelectronics with a focus on memory technology for various services, agencies, and working groups across the USG.  Some of the services and agencies he supports as well as collaborates with include the Navy Strategic Systems Program, Air Force, DARPA, NASA, LANL, NRL, as well as OSD T&AM and JFAC.  Matt is also a cofounder of the SPECTRA research group and lab in the Flight Systems Division. SPECTRA is a data oriented research group comprised of scientists, engineers, and technicians looking to develop new and innovative test techniques and evaluation methods to assess trust and reliability in state of the art microelectronics.  Since the founding of the SPECTRA lab, he has gone on to standup and develop specialized labs in the areas of firmware analysis of embedded systems, advanced microelectronics part preparation, and device forensics. He also supports numerous workforce development efforts at various universities with the Midwest. Matt received his B.A. from Wabash College, and his M.S. in Physics from Purdue University’s Physics and Astronomy Department.  He recently completed his PhD in Physics as part time graduate student at Purdue University.

Abstract: One of the major challenges in maintaining quality is to protect the supply chain against Counterfeits and Clones. Clone and counterfeits are essentially different from each other. Identifying and differentiating them from legitimates would be explained by means of examples. Hardware Trojan Research is performed by inserting a hardware Trojan into the system and evaluate its impact on the security of device. We discuss the different levels of threat that can be caused by counterfeits or clones. Federation of DoD software and hardware assurance (SwA/HwA) capabilities and capacities. Verification is required when parts cannot be obtained from trusted suppliers. These verification tests can be conducted at various levels which would be discussed.