Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense and Security Conference
Crystal City, VA June 18-21 2007

Link: http://www.nano-dds.com/index.shtml

The Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense & Security (NANO-DDS) Conference is being organized as a formal bi-annual meeting for the purpose of reviewing research and development (R&D) activities in the arena of nanoelectronic devices that have direct relevance to critical capability needs for national Defense & Security in the future. The charter of this special conference is to unify and focus the very broad array of nanoelectronic and supporting nanotechnology activities that are currently engaged in reaching the long expected applications payoffs in core defense and security related areas such as sensing, data processing, computation and communications.

The nanoelectronic device R&D community presently spans many scientific and engineering disciplines and is often segmented into groups at the far ends of what can be called an applications spectrum. Specifically, one segment of the R&D community works mostly at the highly-applied end of the spectrum where nanoelectronic devices are being implemented to enhance and extend existing technological capabilities. Another segment of the R&D community works mostly at the frontier end of the spectrum where novel nanoelectronic devices are being conceptualized and investigated for their potential merits in defining entirely new technological capabilities. Hence the underlying motivation for this new conference is articulated by the following theme:

Conference Theme: Bridging the intellectual gap between the frontier and applications portions of the nanoelectronic devices spectrum for the purpose of accelerating nanotechnology payoffs that have relevance to national Defense and Security.