--HEDLight Industry Day

NA HEDLight Industry Day SN - . The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Programs Office of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) is holding an industry day on High Efficiency Distributed Lighting (HEDLight) in preparation for a ne w program sponsored by DARPA in this area. Attendance at the industry day is OPTIONAL, BUT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for all potential bidders. This industry day will be held September 19, 2002, in Arlington, VA, from 10 am to 1 pm Eastern Time. Meeting sign-in will begin at 9 am, with briefings beginning promptly at 10 am. Exact location will be determined once number of attendees is known. AMCOM is supporting DARPA as agents in this area. DARPA is interested in adapting advanced technologies into military s ystems and exploiting emerging technologies for future programs. The aim of the industry day is to make the community aware of DARPA's interest in innovative concepts relating to advances in High Efficiency Distributed Lighting. It is intended that this industry day provide a forum for interested parties to learn about program goals in order to facilitate the preparation of proposals that may be requested under an AMCOM Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that is under consideration. The specific objective o f the program is to enable significant advances in platform survivability with a secondary emphasis on enabling improved visual acuity of the warfighter. Technical areas of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) high efficiency full spectrum light sources, (2) coupling optics, (3) optical-fiber-luminaires, and (4) integrated fiber-illuminators. The overall system technical objective of the program is the demonstration of high efficiency distributed lighting illuminators characterized by: Illuminator Property Objective Electrical Efficiency (LPW) 50 minimum, 70 goal Mass Efficiency (lumens per gm) 2 minimum, 5 goal Output (lumens) 1000-5000 Color Point 5700-6500 K CCT Spectrum D57-D65, full spectrum, white Luminaire fiber-integrated The industry day will consist of presentations from DARPA on specific areas relevant to possible program goals. Industry day participants will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding DARPA's vision and plans. Interested parties unable to attend the meeting are encouraged to submit their questions via e-mail by 12 Sep, 2002 to Ms. Adina Peyton at contact@example.gov. All questions and answers will be emailed to the attendees and any question submitters unable to attend. Attendees must reg ister in advance by sending name, company name and address, phone, fax and email to Ms. Peyton at contact@example.gov. Registration cutoff is 12 Sep, 2002. Attendees and question submitters may request with their registration or question submi ttal that their point of contact information be shared with other participants. The information will be provided to all attendees and question submitters, whether they are on the list or not. It is recommended that you register early. Finalized informat ion on industry day location will be sent to registrants by 16 Sep 02. For further administrative information contact Ms. Peyton at contact@example.gov. Please refer to the HEDLight Industry Day in correspondence. This announcement is NOT a r equest for proposals. No solicitation document is available at this time. AMCOM anticipates, but cannot guarantee, that a solicitation will be released after the industry day. DARPA Technical Point of Contact: Dr. Doug Kirkpatrick, DARPA Program Manager, Phone +1 (555) 000-0000, Fax +1 (555) 000-0000, Email contact@example.gov AMCOM Technical Point of Contact: Barbara Robertson, AMCOM Technical Liason, Phone +1 (555) 000-0000, Fax +1 (555) 000-0000, Email contact@example.gov