
| Rapid Expert Consultation on Archival Data Storage Technologies for the Intelligence Community |
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| Authors | Eric Fullerton (NAE1),2 Steffen Hellmold3 Shashidhar Joshi4 Laura McNamara5 This rapid expert consultation (REC) was conducted under the auspices of the Intelligence Community Studies Board (ICSB), an activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The ICSB serves as the convening authority for the discussion of science and technology of importance to the Intelligence Community (IC). Authorship responsibility for the final content rests with the authors. The authors declare the following competing interests and disclosures: Eric Fullerton has served as an expert witness in the cases Lambeth Magnetic Structures, LLC v. Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation and Subsidiaries, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Both cases were completed in 2022, prior to the start of this study. Steffen Hellmold is the president of Pithos, LLC. The company currently has the following four clients: Everspin Technologies, Inc.; Iridia, Inc.; Codelucida, Inc.; and Ceramic Data Solutions Holding GmbH. Shashidar Joshi is employed by Microsoft, which provides commercial cloud storage solutions and is developing Project Silica. |
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1 Member, National Academy of Engineering.
2 University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Professor, University of Lorraine, France.
3 Pithos, LLC.
4 Microsoft.
5 Sandia National Laboratories.
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