COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The top engineer at BAE Systems will keynote the upcoming CALCE/SMTA symposium on counterfeit electronics in late June. 

Organizers for the CALCE/SMTA Symposium on Counterfeit Electronic Parts, Materials and on Electronics Supply Chain said Henry Livingston, Ph.D. will recount observations and insights from a US defense industry perspective.

The event takes place June 28-30, 2016 at College Park.

An engineering fellow and technical director at BAE and a pioneer in establishing detection and avoidance, Livingston has been an early and frequent voice in the area of risks posed by counterfeit electronics to the industry in general and the defense sector in particular. He will relate his observations and insights from personal experience in counterfeit electronic part avoidance related activity over the past decade pointing out where we went right and where we may have gone wrong.

Livingston will also present thoughts on how SAE Aerospace Standard AS5553 can serve as criteria for assessing Contractor Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection and Avoidance Systems in compliance with recent department of defense regulations in view of changes both in the government regulations and in the standard.

Also keynoting is SMTCorp executive vice president Tom Sharpe.

Sharpe, who has been warning of counterfeits for years, will speak on the "coming deluge" of complex cloned devices. SMT Corp. maintains the one of the largest inventories of obsolete and DMS-type electronic components as well as the largest in-house testing services among independent distributors. SMT's labs are credited with the initial identification and industry-sharing of several counterfeit processes over the past several years as well as developing the required mitigation inspections to reliably detect these new counterfeiting methods.