Where is the workshop being held?
Is there a web site with the details?

Regards,
Mike McEntee


========== On Fri, 7 Nov 1997 - gaitan wrote: ==========
To:       MEMS @ ISI.EDU @ INTERNET
cc:
From:     gaitan @ nist.gov (Michael Gaitan) @ INTERNET
Date:     11/07/97 10:15:16 AM
Subject:  NIST ATP focused program in MEMS

Jack Boudreaux from the NIST ATP office asked me to send
this information to the MEMS mailing list.
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Call for white papers to define new ATP focused program
                   in MEMS and nano-technology
Summary: The ATP is organizing a focused program in MEMS that could
be funded on the order of $130M over 4 years.  The first step in
creating the focused program is for the ATP to solicit white papers
concerning directions and goals the program should take. Secondly, a
workshop is being planned on December 10, 1997, immediately after the
IEDM.  White papers should be submitted to ATP before November 25
for inclusion in the workshop.  Please get involved in this process now,
we need your participation to make this an effective program for MEMS.
The NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) provides competitive,
cost-shared awards for industry to develop high-risk, enabling
technologies with broad-based economic benefit.  While the
government provides the catalyst--and in many cases critical
technical support--industry conceives, manages, and executes ATP
projects.  The ATP seeks to help industry fill the gap between
basic research and product development, and to invest in high-
risk technology that would not be developed in a competitive
time-frame without government cost-sharing.  Along with general
competitions  which are open to proposals from all technical
areas, the ATP added in 1994 a new element to its investment
strategy, namely, focused programs.  Each focused program has
well-defined research and business goals. Focused programs are
not open-ended.  A typical program runs about five years with an
end-date defined up front, and involves $10 to $50 million per
year in ATP funding and a comparable amount of private sector
cost-sharing. An area in which white papers are now being
solicited is MEMS, including micromachining and microfabrication,
and nano-technology.
ATP focused programs are selected by a competitive process.
Because the selection of potential program areas begins with
suggestions from industry, the ATP strongly encourages all
interested parties to prepare and send in white papers which
clearly outline ideas for  focused programs.  Each white paper
should first describe the author's view of the best technical
themes for a focused program in this area, and then explain how
these themes are consistent with the following selection
criteria: the potential for U.S. economic benefit, evidence of
good technical ideas, strong industry commitment, and opportunity
for ATP funds to make a difference. Program idea white papers are
available for public review and must contain no proprietary
information.  To submit white papers, or for additional
information, please contact:
J.C. Boudreaux
NIST/Advanced Technology Program
ADMIN A231
Gaithersburg MD 20899
tele (301)975-3560
fax  (301)548-1087
Email jack.boudreaux@nist.gov
ATP homepage http://www.atp.nist.gov