Does Active RFID technology have a Supply Chain Security Application? (Active RFID Summit 2005)

Dr. Charles D. Massey is the Manager of the International Borders and Maritime Security Program at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of security and transportation programs on the national and international level. He serves as the Sandia manager responsible for supporting the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Second Line of Defense (SLD) Program and its Megaports Initiative. The mission of the SLD Program is to deter, detect, and interdict illicit trafficking in weapon's usable nuclear material. The Megaports Initiative focuses its efforts on securing the global maritime commerce system. As a result, Dr. Massey oversees and supports security efforts in over 30 countries engaged in the global war on terrorism. Dr. Massey was also the Program Manager for Operation Safe Commerce (OSC) activities at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the Program Manager for Sandia support to the U.S. Coast Guards Foreign Port Security Assessment Program. As part of the OSC activities, Sandia provides threat and vulnerability assessment guidance and support to TSA, identifies vulnerabilities in maritime tradelanes (cargo security), tests and demonstrates potential technologies in laboratory, field, and operational environments, and recommends optimized, defense-in-depth security solutions.

 

Dr. Massey is the author of a number of publications on technical and non-technical subjects and the recipient of numerous awards. He has been an invited speaker at international security conferences around the world and has specialized in maritime security issues for more than a decade. In 1998, he received the U.S. Department of Justice's Outstanding Service Award for his work in a critical nuclear non-proliferation project involving maritime transportation of nuclear material.

 

In addition to his civilian awards, Dr. Massey has received numerous awards from the U.S. Navy in which he has the rank of Captain and currently serves in the reserves as the Commanding Officer of a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Information Security unit. He has conducted several studies for the navy on biometric security systems and has spoofed many of them.

 

Dr. Massey has spent considerable time at sea and held a Chief Mate's license from the U.S. Coast Guard. He has sailed on tankers, container vessels, break-bulk vessels, and oceanographic survey vessels.

 

Dr. Massey attended the United States Merchant Academy earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Transportation. He also attended the University of Pittsburgh earning the degrees of Master of Science in Energy Resources, Master of Science in Health Physics, and Doctorate of Philosophy in Radiation Health with a Minor in Civil Engineering.

Since 1949, Sandia National Laboratories has developed science-based technologies that support our national security. Today, the nearly 300 million Americans depend on Sandia's technology solutions to solve national and global threats to peace and freedom.

 

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