IP: DARPA Conference seeks new defense ideas

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> > DARPA will host "Scientists Helping America," a conference at the
> > Naval Research Laboratory, March 11-13, targeted at researchers who
> > have not previously worked as principals on Department of Defense
> > contracts.  The conference organizers are seeking projects with an
> > application to the work of U.S. Special Operations Forces that "will
> > envision breakthrough technologies that 'push' toward defense goals
> > and complement the applications 'pull' from the users of that
> > technology."  Specific technologies of particular interest include:
> >
> > Signature Reduction
> > High Bandwidth/Reachback Communications
> > Underwater Communications
> > Unmanned Systems
> > Batteries/Fuel Cells
> > Remote Sensing
> > Advance Training Systems
> > Bioengineering/ Chem-Bio Defense
> > Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)
> >
> > Abstract submissions for the conference are due February 6, 2002.
> > For more information on the conference, see the following URL:
> > http://safe.sysplan.com/scihelpamerica/ad.html

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