Introduction to Anti-Tamper
Anti-Tamper (AT) encompasses the systems engineering activities intended to prevent and/or delay exploitation of critical technologies in U.S. weapon systems. These activities involve the entire life-cycle of systems acquisition, including research, design, development, implementation, and testing of AT measures.
Properly employed, AT will add longevity to a critical technology by deterring efforts to reverse-engineer, exploit, or develop countermeasures against a system or system component.
AT is not intended to completely defeat such hostile attempts, but it should discourage exploitation or reverse-engineering or make such efforts so time-consuming, difficult, and expensive that even if successful, a critical technology will have been replaced by its next-generation version.
Objectives:
- Impede unapproved technology transfer, alteration of system capability, or countermeasure development
- Enhance U.S./coalition warfighting capability and interoperability by enabling additional exports of state-of-the-art U.S. weapon systems
- Extend the effective operational life of U.S. and coalition warfighting capabilities
- Educate the DoD community on the Anti-Tamper process
- Institutionalize Anti-Tamper within the DoD
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