Call for Papers
Abstract Deadline | 27 July 2007
Abstracts are solicited on the following topics:
- Hazard Assessment
This session will include presentations that describe the scientific basis for predicting the fate of agents within the environment with emphasis on those surfaces of primary military operational concern. Linkage betweeen that environmental fate/persistence and interpretation of the toxicological hazard assessment for military personnel is a primary objective.
- Advanced Air Purification
Science and technology advances in the removal of Chemical and Biological agents, and Toxic Industrial Chemicals from contaminated air for individual and collective protection application. Topics include novel materials with potential as broad spectrum adsorbents, innovative bed design, low-power regenerative or oxidative filtration technologies with application from the collective to individual scale, and novel HEPA media and non-media approaches to increased efficiency in aerosol/particulate removal. This area also includes development of test methodologies that foster standardization and enable open discussion and comparison of results of these emerging technologies.
- Detection
- Algorithm Development
This session will provide a forum for in-depth discussion on all aspects of the processing and analysis of CB detection data. Of interest are algorithms applied to all detection modalities including point detection, water monitoring, active and passive standoff detection. Original papers are invited involving research in the following categories: signal processing, detection and ROC curves, estimation, discrimination and real-time implementation issues.
- Agent Spectroscopy
Measuring and analyzing agent spectra can be both difficult and challenging. This session will deal with all aspects of agent spectroscopy including laboratory collection of quantitative (i.e. complex refractive indices) spectra as well as outdoor collection against complex backgrounds using both “off the shelf” and developmental spectrometers. Chemical and biological materials in all physical forms (vapor, liquid, and aerosol) will be considered at virtually all wavelengths (UV-Sub Millimeter). Analysis and interpretation of spectra will also be discussed.
- Micro-Opto-Electromechanical Systems (MOEMS)
RMicro-Opto-Electromechanical Systems (MOEMS) is a special class of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) which involves sensing or manipulating optical signals on a very small size scale using integrated mechanical and electrical systems. MOEMS includes a wide variety of devices including optical switch, optical cross-connect, tunable VCSEL, microbolometers, and others. This session marks the "current state of the art" with an overview, a market survey (new materials, novel sensor and component design concepts and issues) with applications to new and novel chemical and biological sensors. This session seeks to initiate a dialog for standards and characterization methods within MOEMS technologies with an application to CB sensing. This session also addresses the need to test, evaluate and prepare for transition.
- Explosives Sensing
Explosives Sensing. New point, proximity, and stand-off detection methods, miniaturized analysis modules, chemical sensors or instrumental design, standard calibration protocols and performance tests to determine detection figures of merit such as specificity and sensitivity. Sensing applications for trace and bulk military explosives, homemade explosives as well as residue from explosives will be considered.
- Algorithm Development
- Human Performance with CBRN Individual Protective Equipment
Human performance is adversely affected when CB individual protective equipment (IPE) is worn, including respirators and suits. The IPE imposes thermal, metabolic, respiratory, cardiovascular, biomechanical, cognitive and psychological burdens on the wearer. Range of motion, performance time, communications, manual dexterity, comfort, and vision may be impacted. Additionally, users may experience psychological effects such as claustrophobia, panic or anxiety. The purposes of this topic area are to address human performance issues currently associated with wearing CBRN protective equipment and to discuss research efforts to advance the knowledge base for developing less burdensome IPE for U.S. war fighters.
- Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology encompasses a broad and rapidly growing area of basic research, applied research, early attempts at commercialization, and even mature technologies. Nanoteechnology deals with structures whose dimensions are in the 1-100 nanometer domain (small molecule-sized), with the implicit recognition that controlling nanostructures in this size range provides desired properties to their composite behavior in the tangible, macroscopic world. Nanotechnology has acquired special impetus due to recent developments in several specific areas of research:
* The synthesis of non-traditional carbon-based nanostructures, such as buckeyballs and carbon nanotubes, and of other tailorable nanoparticles such as quantum dots, and the realization that these may exhibit unexpected yet highly useful behavior and properties.
* Microfabrication technologies, especially lithography, which have progressed to the point that artificially designed and engineered nanostructures can be fabricated, and placed with high precision, on specific substrates.
* The preparation of novel nanostructured materials with local nanometer-scale order, such as nano-porous materials and nano-clays, which possess unusual collective physical or chemical properties. - Transformational Countermeasures Technology Initiative
Transformational Countermeasures Technology Initiative (TCTI) is an integrated and comprehensive DTRA program executed by the entire CBD community and focused on emerging science and technology with the potential to fundamentally alter CBD capabilities. It is predicated on the four technological pillars of biotechnology, nanoscience, information technology and cognitive science, and represents a break with the past in which programs were capability driven and organized in largely independent silos, and investments were threat, rather than science, driven. The ultimate goals are completely abiotic systems capable of sensing, responding and adapting to the environment, with distributed, decentralized, intelligent, autonomous systems which provide fully integrated situational awareness requiring no conscious participation by the soldier.
- Reactive Surfaces and Treatments for Textiles and Coatings
Reactive Surfaces and Treatments for Textiles and Coatings will include sessions of presentations and posters on the chemistry and processing effects of new reactive materials designed for use in coatings and layered fabric systems. Validation testing of self-decontamination efficiencies of reactive coatings and textiles will be another important topic area, as will predictive modeling of treatments and the performance of reactive layered systems.
- Modeling & Simulation/Information Technology
Battlefield management, modeling and simulation, virtual prototyping, application and demonstration of bioinformatics in the development of medical countermeasures and diagnostic systems for chemical and biological threats, ] computational chemistry and biology, high performance computing related to chemical or biological agents, swarm technology and information sharing.
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