PROPOSERS’ DAY ANNOUNCEMENTSUSTAINED LITTORAL PRESENCE (SLP) PROGRAM The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Technology Office (ATO) will sponsor a Proposers’ Day conference in support of the Sustained Littoral Presence (SLP) program on 30 November 2005, from 8:30 AM until 4:30 PM, located at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association facility located at 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Lobby Level, Arlington, VA 22203. The purpose of the event is to provide information on the program, promote additional discussion on the associated research topics, address questions from potential proposers, and provide a forum for potential proposers to identify teaming opportunities. The SLP program objectives are: (1) to develop sustainable, microbial fuel cells (bottom mounted and in the water column) to generate continuous, unattended power for greater than 10 years in both ocean and fresh water regions and (2) to develop unique mobile surveillance systems that utilize these novel microbial power plants and operate with a high degree of autonomy, stealth, and weather tolerance with minimum cost and manpower risk. These SLP objectives will be achieved through the development of enabling technologies and the integration of said technologies into systems via a phased, multiyear program. System and technology areas of interest include: instruments to identify and determine concentrations of chemical reactants and reductants in real time and in situ in marine sediments and adjacent waters; instruments to characterize environmental processes and related parameters in real time and in situ in marine sediments and adjacent waters (temperature, salinity, pressure); models and simulations to represent the parameter space and processes required to produce reliable power from microbial fuel cells in laboratories and in situ in coastal waters; fuel cell components (electrode materials, surfaces, and coatings); fuel cell power monitoring, conditioning, processing, and storage; location and characterization of plankton type and concentration in water column; plankton filtering in water; extraction of oxygen and methane gases from ocean and fresh water; microbial conversion of methane gas to liquid methanol, in situ in marine environments; microbial conversion of methane gas to hydrogen, in situ in marine environments; bottom mounted microbial fuel cell systems; water column microbial fuel cell systems; amphibious vehicles with integral microbial fuel cell systems; and water column vehicles with integral microbial fuel cell systems. For additional information on the SLP program, reference DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 06-12, and the associated Proposer Information Pamphlet (PIP) which DARPA plans on publishing before the Proposers’ Day conference. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration is available at the following website: https://www.schafertmd.com/slp2005. Attendees must register NLT 22 November 2005. Due to space limitations, registration will be limited to 70 persons overall and 2 persons per organization. Attendance of the Proposers Day is voluntary, and is not required to propose to the associated BAA. The Proposers’ Day will be unclassified and open to all potential proposers. All US Citizens are required to submit a US Citizenship Verification form in order to attend this conference; permanent residents will be required to complete and submit DARPA Form 60 “Foreign National Visit Request”. These documents must be completed and faxed (ATTENTION: Mr. Tom Fitzgerald) to 703-516-6031 NLT 22 November 2005. Both documents are available for download at the registration website. Immediately following the conference, potential proposers may have the opportunity to meet individually with the SLP Program Manager, Dr. Edward Carapezza. Individual sessions may be requested via email to
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