Re: [rp-ml] $75 million for rapid prototyping

Thanks, Bob. Sounds like you're on top of it.

Hope you're doing well.

Terry

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Wohlers Associates, Inc.
OakRidge Business Park
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Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 USA
970-225-0086
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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Bob Crangle
  To: 'Terry Wohlers' ; 'RP-ML'
  Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:54 PM
  Subject: RE: [rp-ml] $75 million for rapid prototyping

  At the February AAAS annual meeting I sat through a presentation on the DHS research program and came away thinking that it is not clear what DHS means by "rapid prototyping", although it appears as a standalone line in their viewgraphs and budget description. It is supposedly to accelerate new product development for first responders, and often to do it by using any old technique that will get the gear to the firefighter faster - not anything we commonly call rp. Much of their rp effort is coordinated through their interagency Tech Support Working Group, which is really aimed at counterterrorism tech product development. In fact, I think the whole $75 million may be earmarked internally for mostly TSWG projects. I also think they view some of it as Information Technology rp: computer modeling kinds of stuff. If anyone on the list is looking for fed funds to use rp to quickly put new products into ambulances - well, DHS is a good place to look.

  Bob Crangle

  Rose & Crangle, Ltd.

  785 524 5051 (fax 3130)

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On Behalf Of Terry Wohlers
  Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:34 AM
  To: RP-ML
  Subject: [rp-ml] $75 million for rapid prototyping

  Hello everyone,

  Has anyone seen the following? Anyone know what "$75 million for rapid prototyping" really means?

  Best regards,

  Terry

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  Terry Wohlers
  Wohlers Associates, Inc.
  OakRidge Business Park
  1511 River Oak Drive
  Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 USA
  970-225-0086
  Fax 970-225-2027
  tw@wohlersassociates.com
  http://wohlersassociates.com

  HOMELAND Security spending bill headed to Senate floor
  GovExec.com - USA
  ... infrastructures, $67 million for cyber-security activities, $141 million
  for national security telecommunications, $75 million for rapid prototyping
  and $11 ...
  http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0604/061704tdpm2.htm

   
Received on Fri Jun 18 23:10:57 2004