Device Assisted Security Features - FY26 - (Request for Information)

Description: Obtaining, testing, and evaluating technologies and/or materials with potential application in device-assisted, user interpreted counterfeit deterrent features on future generations of U. S. currency. Proposed counterfeit deterrent features should be novel and that are not otherwise in commercial use or the public domain. Proposed features may become distinctive counterfeit deterrents incorporated into the banknote or applied to the note. An effective device-assisted user-interpreted feature should be materials and effects that extremely difficult to simulate or duplicate but should be easy to authenticate by the public using a ubiquitous, readily available and low-cost device. Examples of these devices include but are not limited to optical filters, magnifiers, low-cost laser pointers, LED flashlights, magnets, and cell phones. See attached file.