UH hosts annual Department of Defense conference

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UH researchers attending the UH-DoD Annual Conference found out how to tap into the more than $10 billion that the Defense Department invests in research annually and what opportunities exist within the department’s various arms. Benjamin P. Riley III, director of the DOD Rapid Reaction Technology Office, was the keynote speaker. The conference was held Nov 1-2, 2007, at the University of Houston Hilton.

The University of Houston's Division of Research, along with co-sponsors U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy ROTC, presented the 2nd annual Department of Defense-UH Research Conference.

Topics included:

Overview of the DoD Research Process - 'How To'
Air Force, Army, and Navy Research Opportunities
DARPA, AFSPC, AFRL, SDTW, ARL, ONR, DHS
Nanotechnology, lasers, sensors, materials, info ops
Foreign languages, logistics, psychology, leadership
Homeland Security, alternate energy, networks

TLC²-affiliated research centers included:

Computational Biomedicine Lab
Computational Physiology Lab
Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics

For more information, please visit:

UH-DOD Conference: https://orion.tlc2.uh.edu/dod/
UH Division of Research: www.research.uh.edu

Pictures of the UH-DoD conference are available at www.tlc2.uh.edu/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=677.