DOD PERSONNEL RECOVERY CONFERENCE The Defense Prisoner of War (POW)/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) will host the inaugural Department of Defense (DoD) Personnel Recovery (PR) conference at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA., on 27-30 Oct 1997. DPMO has invited the senior leadership of DoD and the interagency community to participate in the conference. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs (DASD (POW/MPA)) is responsible for policy, control, and oversight within DoD of the entire spectrum for investigation and recovery related to missing personnel (including matters related to search, rescue, escape, and evasion). Additionally, the DASD (POW/MPA) is responsible for coordinating with other departments and agencies of the U.S. government on all matters concerning missing personnel and personnel recovery. DPMO is hosting the conference in October to heighten awareness of personnel recovery policy-level issues throughout DoD, identify and resolve key policy issues, and to charta course into the future for DoD regarding personnel recovery. If you are working with agencies involved in personnel recovery, or developing equipment or software to enhance recovery of isolated individuals, we invite you to set up a display at the conference. We will allow a limited number of displays in the common areas and lobbies of Collins Hall where the conference will take place. If you are interested in setting up a display, we must have a response from you no later than September 30 regarding your intent to attend the conference. Additionally, we need to know the size of your display, to include the amount of floor space your display will require. Please fax your visit request to DPMO at (703) 602-1890, or DSN 332-1890, attention Major Kerry Gomez. DPMO will consolidate the requests for space that it receives by September 30, evaluate them and equitably distribute available floor space. DPMO will notify those who indicated their desire to attend of the space we allotted to them NLT October 7,1997. To ensure the War College has the necessary security clearance information for you, please fax a VISIT REQUEST, on letterhead, to: Ms. Ann Garman's at (717) 245-4433 or DSN 242-4433. Ms. Garman's phone number is (717) 245-4192, or if appropriate, send a message certifying your clearance/accesses to: "SSO CARLISLE" and include in the message: "pass to Ann Garman, (717) 245-4192." Please call Ms. Garman a few days after sending your fax or message to confirm that your clearance information is on file. If you have any questions, please call DPMO, Major Gomez, at (703) 602-2102, ext. 184. If you have security clearance-related questions, please call Ms. Jean Thoss, tele. (703) 602-2102, ext. 199, fax: (703) 602-1891. Thank you for your interest.

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