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Nuclear Engineering Division
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Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT)

Seals

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Experience and Expertise

  • We have a unique vulnerability assessment laboratory.
  • We help users choose seals and design the optimum use protocols.
  • We have developed seals training curriculum for DoD.
  • We have demonstrated defeats of many widely used tags and seals (electronic, fiber optic, passive, and tamper-evident packaging), including those used for critical applications.
  • Our team has designed new seals, based on the good and bad features of existing seals, plus novel ideas.
  • We've performed demonstrations, vulnerability assessments, and consulting for a dozen government agencies and eleven private companies.
  • We focus on rapid, low-tech attacks that almost anyone can do.
  • We've devised fundamentally new approaches to tamper detection, intrusion detection, nuclear safeguards and cargo security.
  • Team members have won numerous awards, including the Fellows Prize for Outstanding Research (2003), Contractors Award (2003), LANL Achievement Awards (2003, 1999, & 1996), Excellence in Performance Measure Award ($1000) from ASIS (2002), Distinguished Performance Award from a U.S. government agency (2002), LANL Distinguished Performance Awards (2001 & 1995), LANL Student Mentoring Award (1999), Excellence in Technology Transfer Award (1997), R&D 100 Awards (1994 & 1992), and a dozen U.S. patents.
  • We are serving on three national panels for seal standards.

 

Contact:
Roger Johnston, Section Manager
National Security and Non-proliferation Department
Vulnerability Assessments Section
Fax:  +1 630-252-7323

VAT Resources

VAT PAPERS

For a selection of VAT papers available upon request, see Publications.

For copies of the VAT papers and presentations on a wide variety of physical security issues (tags, seals, product counterfeiting, vulnerability assessments, RFIDs, GPS, nuclear safeguards), contact Roger Johnston at  

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Roger Johnston, Manager
National Security and Non-proliferation Dept.
Vulnerability Assessments Section
Fax:  +1 630-252-7323

Jon Warner
National Security and Non-proliferation Dept.
Vulnerability Assessments Section
Fax:  +1 630-252-7323

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