REMINDER/Battelle Experts to Demonstrate Solutions to Technical Defense Challenges.Business Editors/Defense Reporters REMINDER...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (Dec. 9) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Briefing to Showcase A showcase, or vitrine, is a glassed-in cabinet or case for displaying delicate or valuable articles such as objects d'art or merchandise in a shop, museum, or house. Latest Developments in Fuel Cell, Building Protection & Border Security Technologies
WHAT: Battelle, one of the largest non-profit applied research and
development firms in the world, will host a briefing to
showcase how science and technology are being put to work to
solve tough challenges in national defense. Battelle scientists
and engineers will discuss a number of innovative solutions
that are helping meet the military's critical need for
longer-lasting, lighter-weight power supplies, securing our
nation's borders and protecting occupants in federal and
military installations from a possible terrorist attack.
Highlights will include a demonstration of RRAPDS (Remote
Readiness Assets Prognostic & Diagnostic System), a sensor
system used to track and monitor fitness of munitions --
whether in storage or transit -- and diagnose damage or other
problems. Battelle experts also will describe fuel cell
developments that can meet military needs for stronger,
lighter, more efficient power supplies to run the five
portable devices the average soldier must carry today. Solid
oxide and proton exchange membrane approaches will be
explained -- advantages and disadvantages depending on the
mission -- and the timeline for bringing these advances to
the field.
The briefing also includes: advanced detection equipment that
identifies liquids in sealed containers, the latest
building/shelter protection and blast protection technology,
along with the world-class experts to explain the science
behind it all.
WHO: Dennis V. McGinn, Vice President, Strategic Planning;
Michael Kluse, Associate Laboratory Director of Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory; William Jackson, Senior
Research Scientist, Building Protection; Thomas Burky,
Project Manager, Energetic Systems & Security Technology;
Evan Jones, Technical Group Manager, Advanced Processing &
Applications Group; and Jay Sayre, Principal Research
Scientist, Advanced Materials Applications are among the
Battelle experts who will be on hand.
WHERE: Battelle's Crystal City Office
1725 Jefferson Davis Highway
Crystal Square 2, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22202
WHEN: Tuesday, December 9, 2003
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Breakfast will be provided. Please let us know if you plan to
attend so we can add your name to the attendance list for
security purposes.
About Battelle Battelle may refer to:
Founded more than 70 years ago, Battelle is valued for the independent perspective we bring to scientific studies and investigations. Battelle, with the national labs that it manages or co-manages, oversees 16,000 staff members and conducts $2.7 billion in annual research and development in over 100 locations worldwide. Clients include a broad range of government agencies -- both military and civilian -- as well as non-profit institutions, and private sector companies. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. , Battelle has pioneered applied technology R&D in nearly every field of science and product development since the late 1930s. For example, Battelle scientists helped armor-plate American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of tanks for World War II, participated in the Manhattan Project Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to design and build the first nuclear weapons (atomic bombs). With the discovery of fission in 1939, it became clear to scientists that certain radioactive materials could be used to make a bomb of unprecented power. U.S. that led to the development of nuclear weapons, and later worked on the Marshall Plan Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan took form when U.S. that helped to rebuild Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). .Battelle has an impressive record in commercial product development going back to the 1940s and the xerographic xe·rog·ra·phy n. A dry photographic or photocopying process in which a negative image formed by a resinous powder on an electrically charged plate is electrically transferred to and thermally fixed as positive on a paper or other copying surface. patents (Xerox (Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT, www.xerox.com) A major manufacturer of analog and digital copy machines, computer printers and document management systems. Corporate headquarters are in Stamford, CT, while manufacturing and marketing is in Rochester, NY. ) for paper copier technology. |
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