The Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is soliciting proposals to support an Effects-Based Operations (EBO) Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD), including tools for planning, executing, and assessing effects-based campaigns. This may include collaborative planning and assessment, modeling and simulation, knowledge-based representation and problem solving, and agent, database, and visualization technologies. PRDA-00-06-IFKPA; Joetta Bernhard, (315) 330-2308, (315) 330-7790 fax. . [CBD, 03Jul00.]

The US Army Research Office (ARO), together with the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) and the National Security Agency (NSA), are interested in proposals for quantum computing. BAA DAAD19-00-R-0007; 15Dec00; Henry O. Everitt, 919-549-4369. . [CBD, 03Jul00.]

DARPA/ITO's Ubiquitous Computing Initiative (Ubicomp) addresses issues of task mobility and nomadic data access in physical spaces embedded with computing functionality. Three-year proposals are solicited. BAA 00-45; 19Oct00; Jean Scholtz, (703) 522-7161 fax. . [CBD, 13Jul00.]

NIH is soliciting "P20" planning grant proposals for its National Programs of Excellence in Biomedical Computing (PRE-NPEBC). Topics concern data management/analysis and the modeling of biological processes. Letters of intent are due 27Oct, 27Feb, and 27Jun each year, with applications due a month later. NIH is also soliciting proposals for its Innovations in Biomedical Information Science and Technology: Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33), with deadlines as above. and , for solicitations PAR-00-102 and PA-00-117. [ScienceWise, 07Jul00.]

The Education and Research Institute at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) is seeking university partners for a world-class, degree-granting, graduate education education and research institute to support LaRC (and local and federal programs). The institute would assemble teams of researchers independent of affiliation, to conduct collaborative leading-edge research. It could also serve as an incubator for entrepreneurial activities. This is to be a progressive research environment with minimal hierarchy and external bureaucracy. . SOL SS-318; 18Aug00; Clemans A. Powell, (757) 864-2980, (757) 864-5023 fax. [CBD, 05Jul00.]

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