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Appendix B: Summary from the Workshop Proceedings
Pages 60-62

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... review the current state of acquisition processes within the Air Force for acquiring reliable and secure 1  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016, Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronic Components: Proceedings of a Workshop, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, https://doi.org/10.17226/23561. 2  Effective July 1, 2015, the institution is now called the National Academies of Sciences, Engineer ing, and Medicine.
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From page 61...
... Chapter 1 provides a broad contextual background that includes challenges related to current government policies and technological advancements in the area of secure and reliable electronic components in government national security systems. Even though attri bution to individual speakers or workshop participants is not provided, this section of the report should not be seen as consensus views of the wide representation of views presented throughout the workshop.
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From page 62...
... This proceedings summarizes the views expressed by individual workshop participants. While the committee is responsible for the overall quality and accuracy of the proceedings as a record of what transpired at the workshop, the views contained in the proceedings are not necessarily those of all workshop participants, the committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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