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Current Spreading & the Center for Security Evaluation

07.13.09 | 1 min read | Text by Steven Aftergood

A newly disclosed report from the JASON defense advisory panel may not excite the interest of anyone who is not a student of electrical engineering.  It examines the distribution of electrical current flowing through a long, narrow conductive object.  See “Current Spreading in Long Objects” (pdf), October 2008.

Somewhat more interesting is the fact that the JASON study was sponsored by the Center for Security Evaluation.  The Center is a component of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that supports the Department of State in protecting intelligence and other classified information in U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad.  Its charter was set forth in “Center for Security Evaluation” (pdf), Intelligence Community Directive 707, October 17, 2008.

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