A path to the next generation of U.S. banknotes : keeping them real / Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting, Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bank notes--Forgeries--United States.

Bank notes.

Counterfeits and counterfeiting--United States.

Counterfeits and counterfeiting.

Counterfeits and counterfeiting--United States--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rapid pace at which digital printing is advancing is posing a very serious challenge to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (TM)s Bureau of Printing (BEP). The BEP needs to stay ahead of the evolving counterfeiting threats to U.S. currency. To help meet that challenge, A Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes provides an assessment of technologies and methods to produce designs that enhance the security of U.S. Federal Reserve notes (FRNs). This book presents the results of a systematic investigation of the trends in digital imaging and printing and how they enable emerging counterfeiting threats. It also provides the identification and analysis of new features of FRNs that could provide effective countermeasures to these threats and an overview of a requirements-driven development process that could be adapted to develop an advanced-generation currency.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Background and Motivation for the Study""; ""2 Understanding Counterfeiting""; ""3 Emerging Counterfeiting Technology Threats""; ""4 Innovative Counterfeit-Deterrent Features""; ""5 Disruptive Feature Platforms""; ""6 A Path Forward""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Statement of Task and Organization of the Report""; ""B Features of Current U.S. Banknotes""; ""C Intermediate-Term Feature Descriptions""; ""D Long-Term Feature and Feature Platform Descriptions""

""E An Example Using a Flow Model for Counterfeiting""""F Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611093488

9780309185646

0309185645

9781281093486

1281093483

9780309105798

030910579X

OCLC:

923277683