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Appendix B

Meetings and Activities

This appendix lists presentations provided to the committee at meetings and fact-finding sessions conducted during the course of this study.

First Committee Meeting, December 14–15, 1999

Washington, D.C.

Statement of Task and Army S&T in Biotechnology

Dr. William E. Morrison

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary (Research and Technology)

Army Biotechnology Applications

Dr. James J. Valdes

U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

ONA Recommendations on Military Applications

Dr. Maria Powell

Office of Net Assessment

ARL Research in Biotechnology

Dr. Bruce West

Army Research Office

DARPA Research Activities

Dr. Abraham Lee

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Second Committee Meeting, February 16–17, 2000

Arlington, Virginia

Presentation to the BAST Panel on Biotechnology

COL John F. Glenn

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Military Operational Medicine

LTC Karl E. Friedl

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Medical, Chemical, and Biological Defense

COL Edwin Armitage

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Combat Casualty Care

COL Robert Vandre

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Infectious Disease Research

Dr. Charles Hoke, Jr.

U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command

Harvesting Biology for Future Defense

Dr. Alan Rudolph

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Third Committee Meeting, April 27–28, 2000

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

ONA Seminar on PerformanceEnhancement

Dr. James J. Valdes

U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

Army Biotech and Vision

LTG Paul Kern

Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Aquisition, Logistics, and Technology)

Soldier Systems for the Land Warrior

COL Bruce Jette

U.S. Army Project Manager for Soldier Systems

Fourth Committee Meeting, June 20–21, 2000

National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

No presentations were made during this meeting.

First Fact-Finding Session, February 7, 2000

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Participants:

Philip Sharp

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meetings and Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10142.
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George Church

Harvard University

George Whitesides

Harvard University

Noubar Afeyan

NewcoGen Group

Irwin Taub

U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center

Gene Herbert

U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center

Steve Arcidiacono

U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center

Frank Lee

Millennium Corporation

Second Fact-Finding Session, March 30, 2000

Hyatt Rickeys Hotel, Palo Alto, California

Participants:

Raymond P. Mariella, Jr.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Richard Mathies

University of California at Berkeley

Calvin F. Quate

Stanford University

Mike Hunkapiller

Applied Biosystems

Michael Heller

Nanogen

Third Fact-Finding Session, April 13, 2000

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Participants:

Stuart Rowan

Case Western Reserve University

Sergei Nazarenko

Case Western Reserve University

Roger Marchant

Case Western Reserve University

Ka Yee Lee

Illinois State University

John Lannut

Case Western Reserve University

Derek Hansford

Ohio State University

James Anderson

Case Western Reserve University

Fourth Fact-Finding Session, June 23, 2000

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Participants:

Bonnie J. Dunbar

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Larry DeLucas

University of Alabama – Birmingham

Richard Fullerton

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dennis Morrison

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Neil Pellis

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Fifth Fact-Finding Session, November 8, 2000

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Participants:

James J. Valdes

U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

Kevin O’Connell

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Jennifer Sekowski

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Joe DeFrank

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Erica Valdes

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Jun Park

Geo-Centers, Inc., U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Akbar Khan

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Sarah Cork

Geo-Centers, Inc., U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Roy Thompson

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meetings and Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10142.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meetings and Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10142.
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This report surveys opportunities for future Army applications in biotechnology, including sensors, electronics and computers, materials, logistics, and medical therapeutics, by matching commercial trends and developments with enduring Army requirements. Several biotechnology areas are identified as important for the Army to exploit, either by direct funding of research or by indirect influence of commercial sources, to achieve significant gains in combat effectiveness before 2025.

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