FORCE PROTECTION BATTLELAB INDUSTRY DAY INVITATION The USAF'S Force Protection Battlelab (USAF FPB) is a unique new organization established to identify innovative concepts for protecting Air Force personnel, facilities, and weapons systems and to rapidly measure their potential worth. The FPB will use various methods to test these concepts, to include: field ingenuity, modeling and simulation, and actual employment of exploratory capabilities in exercises and operational environments. To stimulate interaction and input from industry on how technology can be applied to meet objectives, the Battlelab in conjunction with the Air Force Association is hosting an Industry Day. Industry Day will detail current FPB initiatives and highlight areas of interest for future initiatives. It will also provide industry representatives with the direction to find specific solutions to force protection problems. Some of the initiatives the Battlelab is currently exploring are: (1) Unmaned Aerial Vehicles as a platform for survellance, explosive and NBC detection, as well as lethal and non-lethal applications; (2) Explosive Detection; (3) Delay/Denial for Nuclear Security; (4) Non-lethal devices for operations other than war; (5) Modeling and Simulation Capabilities for mission planning, tactics evaluation and command and control; (6) Chemical and Biological Detection. In addition to the presentations mentioned above, the Battlelab will discuss procedures for their interactions with industry. The Industry Day will be held on 9 October 1997 at 0900 at the Gateway Club on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas (San Antonio, TX). Please RSVP to MSgt John Farris at (210)-671-0058 no later than 15 September 1997. We encourage any company who belives it has a product or service applicable to force protection to attend and remind you that this is an information meeting only, no equipment demonstrations are desired. However, we do encourage you to bring literature on your products and or services. If you are unable to attend, please feel free to mail us any materials on your products. Mail them to: USAF Force Protection Battlelab/Concepts Division, Attn: MSgt John Farris, 1631 Stewart Street, Lackland AFB TX 78236 -- 5255.

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