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CERDEC to hold technology interchange meeting with industry

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) will hold a two-day technical interchange meeting with industry to identify and align mutually beneficial R&D investments at its facility in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., March 31 to April 1.

The meeting is an opportunity for industry to learn about CERDEC's core mission, R&D plans, and strategies. The sessions are intended to enhance communication between industry and government and enable industry to respond quickly to emerging requirements.

The meeting will provide details to help attendees align their organization's research efforts with CERDEC's mission areas by articulating technical requirements for high-level capabilities and presenting technology roadmaps and CERDEC's strategies to support these.

Breakout sessions will dissect Army requirements into specific R&D activities in CERDEC mission areas. Those mission areas include mission command; tactical and deployed power; tactical and strategic networks; tactical cyberspace operations; electronic warfare; countermine/counter-IED; intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting; and intelligence analysis, exploitation, and dissemination.

The interchange is intended to kick off a series of more focused industry engagements that are expected to emerge from a clearer understanding of CERDEC's R&D direction.

"If we want to leverage creativity and innovation to its fullest, Army R&D must work more closely with industry in the earliest stages of the product life cycle before requirements are firm and design concepts are determined. The sooner industry knows of our interest in a specific capability, the sooner they can begin to explore or invest in applicable technologies and formulate ideas for Army consideration," said Henry Muller, CERDEC technical director.

To register, visit www.cerdec.army.mil between Feb. 1 and Feb. 28, 2016.