Dear Colleague:

This is a follow-up to my posting of mid-February regarding the first
annual "Non-Lethal Technology Academic Research (NTAR) Symposium" to
be held May 3-5, 1999 at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Quantico,
VA. The symposium is co-sponsored by the University of New Hampshire and
the U.S. DoD's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate and the U.S. DoJ's
National Institute of Justice.

The field of non-lethal weapons technology is an emerging one and this
symposium represents a UNIQUE opportunity for attendees to: 1) learn
more about the field, 2) identify potential areas of basic and applied
research, and 3) HELP SHAPE FUTURE FUNDING DIRECTIONS. (The URL for
the Symposium's website is below.) Government funding representatives
and industry R&D officials will be in attendance.

An up-to-date agenda is now available at:

http://www.unh.edu/orps/nonlethality/pub/agenda.html

Pre-registrations are still being taken (there is NO conference fee)
and ABSTRACTS FOR POSTERS are still being solicited. This is a good
chance to get some government funding entities interested in your
work.

http://www.unh.edu/orps/nonlethality/pub/participate.html

Please note that the sponsors are looking for fresh ideas and fresh
faces from a broad range of the physical, social, life and medical
sciences, as well as engineering. To attend, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO
HAVE WORKED IN THIS AREA BEFORE. In fact, not many have.

The agenda indicates broad topical areas. Subareas would include (but
are not limited to):

+ research into social/ethical implications;

+ modeling/simulation efforts;

+ work in various "disabling" mechanisms - physical entrapment
 devices, vehicle disabling devices, area and/or facilities denial,
etc;

+ new "smart" delivery mechanisms.

In short, THE SPONSORS ARE VERY INTERESTED IN ENGAGING A WIDE SPECTRUM
OF ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS.

The poster session will provide a good opportunity for the sponsors to
learn more about your and your colleagues' work.

There is NO registration fee for the symposium, but all expenses must
be borne by the attendees.

URL -  http://www.unh.edu/orps/nonlethality

Sincerely,

Don
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Donald C. Sundberg
Vice President for Research and Public Service
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824

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