Dear Agoracom friends,

(do let’s all be nice to each other)

Having worked on Information Technology projects in the British Army in the distant past, I would say that it is a fact that any government would consider taking the necessary measures it felt were required, if a particular invention constituted a danger to that country’s national security. Measures would be taken to prevent the invention getting into the hands of an enemy.

It is common security practice that the classification applied to military projects would not be communicated to others, including within the military, under the ‘need to know’ principle. So the fact is that we will never know what elements of POET are classified even if they were.

For me it would be logical to assume that there may be some aspects of the RF development with BAE that are perhaps classified and subject to special handling, as I am sure that the US government would not want to hand a significant advantage in target detection over to its enemies. Perhaps what is meant by ‘portion’ in the F20 is that there are significant parts of the overall RF package that can be commercialised, but some may be subject to security classification. As I say we will never know.

For most of the commercial applications that derive from POET, I am confident that we would not have reached the stage of development that PTI has already achieved if the government had any intention or wish to impose security limitations. We can assume that our disruptive technology is safe for commercialisation.

What interests me more is whether some US security agency will want chips destined say for the Far and Middle East to have some intrinsic hidden means of transmitting intelligence, I will have to check that out with Mr Chu perhaps?

With regards

Sulasailor - (soldier, sailor, tinker, spy)