BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Slide 1

## Slide 2

## Slide 3

**Notes:**
This slide shows, by race/ethnicity, the case rates (per 100,000 population) for HIV/AIDS in adults and adolescents residing in the 33 states with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting.  African American males continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV in the US.  

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

**Notes:**
On March 8th, CDC joined more than 80 African American leaders in calling upon the public health and African American communities to intensify our nation’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis among African Americans. 

## Slide 7

**Notes:**
The efforts of these workgroups parallel the HNR 4 components, which are shown here.
These are the areas that CDC plans to work on with our partners to intensify efforts over the next 3-5 years.  They are:

Expanding the reach of prevention services,
Increasing opportunities for diagnosing and treating HIV,
Developing new, effective prevention interventions, and
Mobilizing broader community action

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

**Notes:**
Take Charge. Take the Test.  Campaign Goals
Increase HIV testing among African American women at risk for HIV in targeted pilot cities (Philadelphia and Cleveland)

Evaluate impact of campaign and subsequently make campaign available through technical assistance for use by other cities

## Slide 11

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## Slide 15

**Notes:**
Darian “Big Tigger” Morgan
TV and radio show host

Hosted the Street Corner Foundation’s 6th Annual Celebrity Classic Basketball game to promote HIV/AIDS awareness

The event featured rapid HIV testing and distribution of HNR leader outreach information to the more than 200 leaders in attendance

## Slide 16

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## Slide 21
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## ULSD Pipeline Test Results

*Colonial Pipeline Company*
*EPA Workshop Presentation*
*November 20, 2002*

## Review

- System Overview
- Sulfur Results
- Recent Movements
- Conclusions

## n

**n**

**Notes:**
50,000   830 bbl/minute
40000   670 bbl/minute

## Movement 1

**Notes:**
100% at 16800
F/C at 4081

## Movement 1

## Movement 1

**Notes:**
2.6% mixture to reach 50ppm

## Movement 1

**Notes:**
2250 sulfur 21
1500 sulfur 13

## Movement 1 Summary

## Movement 2

## Movement 2

## Movement 2

## Movement 2

## Movement 2 Summary

## Conclusions

- Sulfur changes may coincide with gravity change.  More supporting data than not.
- Interface size is larger than typical.
- In and out of tankage offer greatest contamination problems.  Over displacement is the only method to protect the ULSD.
- Tests indicate a lower specification will be required.
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## Rural Public Health Infrastructure

- Barbara J. Quiram, Ph.D.
- School of Rural Public Health
- Texas A&M University System
- Health Science Center

## What does rural public health infrastructure look like in your state?

## Rural Public Health Infrastructure 
Systems and Services

- Systems and Services

## 
Rural Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce

- Rural Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce

## 
Rural Public Health Infrastructure and Preparedness

- Rural Public Health Infrastructure and Preparedness

## 
Rural Public Health Infrastructure and 
Funding Issues

- Rural Public Health Infrastructure and
- Funding Issues

## 
Rural Public Health Infrastructure

Lessons Learned

- Rural Public Health Infrastructure
- Lessons Learned

## For more information contact:

- 			Barbara J. Quiram, Ph.D.
- 			Director, Office of Special Programs
- 			School of Rural Public Health
- 			Texas A&M University System
- 			Health Science Center
- 			3000 Briarcrest Drive, Suite 300
- 			Bryan, Texas 77802
- 			979.845.2387 / fax 979.862.8371
- 			_[quiram@srph.tamu.edu](mailto:quiram@srph.tamu.edu)_
- 			_[www.srph.tamushsc.edu](http://www.srph.tamushsc.edu/)_
- 			_[www.srph.tamushsc.edu/centers/osp](http://www.srph.tamushsc.edu/centers/osp)_
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##          Grids to Text

**Local Formatter**
**Infusion Plan 8/02**

-              GFESuite
-          Text Products

##          Rapid Prototype Process

**NWS Text Product**
**DIRECTIVES**

##          Grids to Text

**Partly cloudy.**

**Highs in the 50’s.**

##          Grids to Text

**Chance of rain and **
**patchy fog in the morning.**

**Chance of rain in the**
**afternoon.**

**Chance of rain.  Patchy fog in the morning.**

##          Grids to Text

**Chance of rain and drizzle**
**in the early evening.**

**Chance of rain and drizzle **
**mixed with blowing snow**
**after midnight.**

**Chance of rain and drizzle mixed with patchy fog in the late evening.**

**Chance of rain and drizzle. Patchy fog in the evening then blowing snow after midnight. **

## “Holographic” Processing

## Holographic” Processing

- Narrative Tree

- Phrase
- Wind Phrase

- Phrase
- PoP Phrase

- Phrase
- Wx Phrase

- slight chance
-  of snow

- chance of
- snow 20
- percent

- southeast
- 5 to 15 mph

- north
- 40 to 45 mph

## Holographic” Processing

- Narrative Tree

- Phrase
- Wind Phrase

- Phrase
- PoP Phrase

- Phrase
- Wx Phrase

- slight chance
-  of snow

- chance of
- snow 20
- percent

- Phrase
- Sky Phrase

- southeast
- 5 to 15 mph

- north
- 40 to 45 mph

##          Rapid Prototype Process

**GFESuite **
**BASELINE CODE**

**Inception 9/98**

**Local Formatter**
**Infusion Plan 8/02**

-              GFESuite
-          Text Products

##        Grids as Source of          NWS Products

- GFESuite
- Text
- Product
- Software

##        Grids as Source of          NWS Products

##        Grids as Source of          NWS Products

- GFESuite
- Text
- Product
- Software

## Improve Quality of Grids by Injecting SCIENCE into the Forecast Process

**RPP Focus Group**
**Innovative Processing Techniques**
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## New Growth Opportunitiesin the 1102 Series

- April 15, 2008
- Procurement Training Forum

## Background

- Over the last 2 to 3 years, several key position changes
- 1102/1105 buyer FPL consistency
- 1102 temporary GS-14’s
- GOES-R Assistant Division Chief
- OHCM colocated Division position
- Additional PM in 210.M
- Continuous dialog on what else/what more can we do
- This Wednesday we will be posting two ads at the permanent GS-14 operational level
- One for “more than one” permanent GS-14 operational
- One for a permanent position in 210.S supporting New Business/Future Projects

## Requirements for the General GS-14 Position 

- In addition to the requirements placed on our temporary GS-14’s, these positions require our Senior 1102’s to do even more
- Train and mentor new and junior employees
- Accept increased responsibilities such as review and approval of procurement related documents and expansion of customer interfaces
- Take personal responsibility for the quality of all office procurement products
- Assist in developing training tools for office employees
- Willingness to move when needed, operational interchangeability is crucial
- Additional roles and responsibilities as required by the supervisor
- Existing temporary 14’s must apply in order to be converted to permanent position
- To be considered for both, employees must apply for both

- Increasing the number of 14’s will not translate into moving full performance specialists automatically up to the 13 level.  That distinction will stay in place.
- These positions are not interchangeable with Senior Staff or PM positions
- We expect to add to our Senior Contracting Officer cadre, but there is no magic number with this ad
- These opportunities will be posted more than once, and will depend on the organizational need

- Requirements for the General GS-14 Position (continued)
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## MEDICAL FAIR INDIA 2009

**Why join the U.S. pavilion:**
***Indian Healthcare Industry Trends ***
** ****Expected to be one of India’s largest industries**
** ****Growth rate 13% per year**** **
** ****Market size $35 billion, expected to be $75 billion by 2012**** **
** ****Growing medical infrastructure – new hospital projects and increased private sector participation**
** ****Increased demand for medical equipment (market size of $2.3 billion to reach $5 billion by 2012) **
** ****Imports account for over 65% of the medical equipment market  **
** ****Medical tourism – major external driver of growth, expected to grow into a $2 billion industry by 2012**

**MEDICAL FAIR INDIA 2009**
***Join the U.S. Pavilion!***

**Who should participate: **
**Manufacturers and suppliers of  medical products and services.**
**When and where: **
**Date:****	****27 – 29 March, 2009**** **
**Venue:**** ****	****Pragati Maidan**
**             ****	****New Delhi, India**** **
**Benefits of participation:**
** ****Built-up Space in the Pavilion**
** ****Promotions **
** ****U.S. participation directories**
** ****U.S. Embassy & Industry Briefings**
** ****Networking events**
** ****B2B meetings**
**Cost:**
**Participation cost:****	****$3,200 **
**(for min 9m****2****)**
**B2B meetings: ****	****$600**
**Application Deadline:**
**January 5, 2009   **

**CONTACT NOW !**
**Email:  srimoti.mukherji@mail.doc.gov**
**Phone:  +91 11 2347 2226; Fax: +91 11 2331 5172**
**www.buyusa.gov/india**
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## Membrane-Based

-  System incorporates fouling-resistant ultrafiltration (UF) modules 	in the first stage, with spiral-wound reverse-osmosis (RO) 		modules in the second stage
-  No interstage pump needed, reducing the power requirements
** **Prototype UF/RO subsystem delivered to JSC for 1996 tests
**                             **
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Innovation generated additional non-SBIR funding of             		more than $1 million
-  Commercial uses include recycle of laundry, car-wash, and 		dishwasher wastewater
-  Technology commercialized in 1990 by spin-off company, 		AquaAir Inc., raising  more than $5 million  for start-up and 		product development

***BEND RESEARCH, INC.***
***BEND, OR***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**     ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Original UF/RO prototype delivered to NASA JSC
-  Second UF/RO unit test in the Technology Demonstration 	Program at MSFC
-  Washwater-Recovery Subsystem being considered by 		NASA for long-duration space missions

- 1983 Phase 2; SS-98; 10/26/95

- Johnson Space Center

**Membrane-Based**
**Washwater Recovery System**

***Washwater Recovery Subsystem***
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## RF Technology Development

**D.A. Rasmussen, D.W. Swain,****F.W. Baity, T.S. Bigelow, M.D. Carter, J.B.O. Caughman, ****A. Fadnek, R.L. Goulding, P.M. Ryan and D.O. Sparks****Oak Ridge National Laboratory**
**VLT Meeting**
**Washington DC**
**August 25, 2005**

## Key R&D Thrusts over next 5 years for RF Technology - develop reliable, advanced ion cyclotron heating and current drive systems

- _Reliable_ operation at the design power, voltage and pulse length.
- Reduced port size - _high power density_ launchers.
- Robust - _load tolerant_ for varying plasma and edge conditions (ELMs, blobs, uv radiation).
- _Flexible_
- Operate over a wide range of density and magnetic fields.
- Heat either ions or electrons
- Control plasma conditions via heating and current profile.
- Compatible with a _reactor environment_.

## Descriptions of R&D thrusts

**Reliability: RF breakdown studies ****(ORNL &UIUC),**** rf/edge modeling & diagnostics (NSTX) and lower voltage antenna designs (DIII-D).**
**High power density: Modeling circuit and coupling physics, prototype testing and operation of antennas for JET-EP, ITER and Tore Supra.**
**Load tolerance: Novel internal and external load tolerant tuning elements and passive & active control with 3dB couplers & arc/ELM discrimination. (JET, DIII-D, ITER)**
**Flexibility: Broadband phased arrays for JET-EP and ITER.  ICRF, LH and EBW launchers for high beta alternates (NSTX, MST, TJ-II, NCSX, QPS).**
**Reactor compatibility: ITER Long Pulse design, Faraday Shield and Tuning Element Development (ITA 51-01,02,07). Ceramic Testing For Use in ITER Environment (ITA 51-08).**

## Current Spending on R&D Thrusts

**Reliability: 400 K**
**High power density: 330 K  **
**Load tolerance: 300 K****	**
**Flexibility: 320 K **
**Reactor compatibility: 250 K ****	**
**	****Collaborations allow effective deployment of new technology and benchmarking of design and analysis tools.**
**Experimental and diagnostic support from NSTX, DIII-D, MST, and international collaborations**
**Predictive code, modeling and analysis support from theory**

**High Power Prototype of load tolerant antenna for JET**

## Spending on R&D Thrusts FY06

**Reliability: 400 K**
**High power density: 330 K  **
**Load tolerance: 300 K****	**
**Flexibility: 320 K **
**Reactor compatibility: 250 K ****	**
**Experimental and diagnostic support from NSTX, ****DIII-D, MST, and international collaborations**
**Predictive codes, modeling and analysis support from theory **
**Irradiation and PFC R&D from materials program**
**ITER specific R&D**

## Characterization of R&D thrusts to VLT missions

|  | ITER Base machine | R&D needed for ITER to be successful | ITER as test bed (TBM, etc) | Next generation technology (for current and future machines) | Longer Term R&D |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | x | x | xx | xx | xx |
| High power density | x | x | x | x | x |
| Load Tolerance | x | x | x | x | x |
| Flexibility | x | x | x | x |  |
| Reactor compatibility | - | x | xx | x | x |
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## Fredrick Haith

- North Carolina A&T State University
- Master of Science in Management (MSM) Degree
- Concentration:  Transportation/Supply Chain Management (T/SCM)

## North Carolina I-40 HOT Lanes 

## Traffic Congestion

- 	Traffic congestion is becoming the single most difficult problem on American roads.  Highway congestion is increasing as traffic increases across the country at more than four percent annually, while highway capacity often remains the same year after year.   In North Carolina these conditions are observed near interstate highways that are in or near the three major urban areas, Charlotte, the Piedmont Triad and the Research Triangle.  When it is possible, adding lanes is often only a temporary solution since traffic continues to grow.

## Traffic Reduction

- 	One way to reduce traffic congestion is to install high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes.
- Provide a free flowing lane
- Reduce travel time
- Increase driving ease

## High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes

- 	Physically located in the center of most major freeways, HOV lanes typically are barrier-separated roadways that allow buses, vanpools and carpools to move higher volumes of passengers to and from locations.

## High Occupancy Vehicle Toll Lanes

- 	HOT lanes are lanes that are open to carpools, vanpools, transit, and toll-paying solo drivers.  Tolls for HOT lanes are set to assure that these lanes keep flowing even when regular lanes are congested.

## Strengths of HOT Lanes

- Reduced congestion in general purpose lanes
- Easily fine-tuned to preserve free flow conditions
- Reduction of new construction in conversion of existing HOV lanes
- Usage of HOT lane reduces congestion for transit and emergency vehicles
- Additional revenue to pay for transportation improvements
- Reduction of harmful externalities

## The Proposed Managed Lane

- 	North Carolina’s team of researchers and engineers proposed a managed lane that will be reversible, eastbound in the morning and westbound in the evening.  The lane will be separated from the usual general purpose lanes by candle stick markers.  People will only use the lane if their car:
- 	1.  has at least 2 passengers (no toll required)
- 	2.  pays a toll to use the lane.

## Diagram of Managed Lane

## Proposed Location

## Current Status

- 	The project team is collecting data on the opinions of commuters where the HOT lane is proposed and implementing a study of the opinions of stakeholders in the Triad.

## Questions
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## WP 3.1Simulation Studies of Issues Associated withFilling Zeros in VPA Tuning Indices

- Chris Legault and Al Seaver

*The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate *
*is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.*
- Steven Pinker (Canadian psychologist)

## Background

- Surveys with zeros at age
- NEFSC SOP treats zeros as missing
- Fluke 2006 review
- Claimed zeros as missing causes bias
- No support provided for this statement
- Claimed retro reduced when zeros filled
- Later shown not true
- Created 1/6 approach
- Many other changes made, end result higher catch advice
- Created perception that filling zeros causes higher catch advice

## Two Simulation Tests

- Simple Excel
- Remove values from a series and observe what happens when add different constants
- Full simulation testing
- Create known population
- Truncate index observations below cut-off to zero
- Compare zeros as missing with different filled values

## Simple Excel

- q = 0.000002

## Full Simulation

- Predecessor to PopSim
- Fluke-like
- 100 VPA datasets
- Set cut-off for index observations at 1
- Compare VPA estimates to true values
- 4 cases

## Case

- 1 all data
- 2 zeros missing
- 3 c=0.01
- 4 c=1/6 rule

- Bias in F

## Conclusions

- No evidence to support claim that treating zeros as missing introduces bias
- Filling zeros with a constant can cause bias

## Appendix: Simple Regression

- Create true values
- Add noise to values using lognormal
- Truncated the “observed” values if below cut-off to zero
- Set 1: treat zeros as missing
- Set 2: add 1/6 smallest non-zero value to all (true and observed)
- Regress each set in log space
- Expect slope=1

## Results

- Set 1 (zeros missing)
- Mean slope = 0.983
- 90% CI (0.864, 1.109)
- Set 2 (1/6 rule)
- Mean slope = 1.261
- 90% CI (1.018, 1.483)
- Set 2 CI nearly twice as big as Set 1
- Set 2 CI does not overlap one

## An Extreme Example

## Bottom Line

- Making up data is bad
- Short term: Do not fill zeros
- Long term: Replace lognormal with some other error distribution
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## Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Optoelectronic Applications Guillermo C. Bazan , University  of California, Santa Barbara, DMR 0606414

- The device efficiency depends on the chemical nature of the backbone counterions.  The time dependence of the current and light emission is consistent with ion motion being responsible for lowering the electron injection barrier.   Conjugated polyelectrolytes thus allow redistribution of the electric field within a device and increase the field gradient at the critical metal/organic interface.

- Conjugated polyelectrolytes have optically and electronically active backbones with pendant ionic functionalities.  These structural attributes provide for the ability to coordinate semiconductor properties with ion motion For example, conjugated polyelectrolytes serve as electron injection layers in organic light emitting diodes and thereby lower the power consumption of these devices.

## Organic Materials of Intermediate Dimensions for Optoelectronic TechnologiesGuillermo C. Bazan , University  of California, Santa Barbara, DMR 0606414

- -Five undergraduate students and one high school student do summer internships or thesis work in Bazan’s Labs working in the area of conjugated polyelectrolytes.
- -Bazan hosted and gave lectures to high school students on the environmental damage by fossil fuels and the potential of organic semiconductors as the active layer in solar cells.

- High school students and Bazan (center with white shirt) during a summer internship workshop, summer 2006.

**Organic Materials of Intermediate Dimensions for Optoelectronic Technologies****Guillermo C. Bazan , University  of California, Santa Barbara, DMR 0606414**
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## CONTRACTING WITH

- NIH

## General Information

- Funding Mechanisms
- Contract (IFB, RFP)
- Grant (RFA, PA)
- Contracting Regulations
- Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
- Health and Human Services Acquisition Regulation (HHSAR) and Other Policy Directives
- NIH Manual Issuances

## HOW NIH ACCOMPLISHES RESEARCH MISSIONS

- _IDEA_	_PERFORMER_	_MECHANISM_
- NIH
- NIH			INTRAMURAL LABS
- INVESTIGATOR
- INVESTIGATOR		GRANTS
- NIH
- INVESTIGATOR		CONTRACTS

## ANOTHER LOOK “THE THREE P’s”

- TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP
- WHEN NIH IS THE:                 INSTRUMENT
- PATRON				GRANT
- PARTNER				CO-OP AGREEMENT
- PROCURER			CONTRACT

## Contracting Relationships

- Contracting Officer/Contracting Specialist
- Project Officer
- Small Business Specialist

## Methods of Contracting

- Negotiation
- RFP
- Discussions Allowed
- Opportunity for Revisions
- Flexible Work Statement
- (R&D or other services, etc.)

- Sealed Bidding
- IFB
- No Discussions
- No Revision
- Well-Defined Supply/Service
- (Construction, comm. goods or services, etc.)

## Contracting by Negotiation 

- Development of the requirement with potential Request for Information
- Publicize the Requirement
- FedBizOpps
- NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
- I/C Web Sites
- Issue the Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Statement of Required Work
- Desired Performance/Delivery Schedule
- Applicable Contract Clauses
- Evaluation Criteria

## Contracting by Negotiation (2)

- Evaluation
- Technical Evaluation
- Cost/Price Evaluation
- Past Performance
- SDB Participation
- Competitive Range/Debriefings/Negotiation /Negotiation/Final Proposal Revisions
- Award Announcements/Notification to Unsuccessful Offerors/Debriefings

## MARKETING / OTHER SUGGESTIONS

- UNDERSTAND THE COSTOMER AND ITS NEEDS
- ALSO KNOW NIH COMPONENTS(NCI, NIAID, NHLBI, the rest)     NIH AS A GRANT-GIVING INSTITUTION
- KNOW THE PLAYERS – CALL I/C PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICES FOR LISTS OF ORGANIZATION, MISSIONS, AND PRINCIPAL STAFF
- JOIN NCMA
- ENTRY VIA SUBCONTRACT DOOR; ALSO ENTER VIA SBIR PROGRAM
- READ THE RFP

## SUGGESTIONS   (CONT’D)

- SEND QUESTIONS TO C.O. ASAP
- USE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA)
- WRITE PROPOSAL TO MATCH EVALUATION CRITERIA
- PREPARE AS IF INITIAL OFFER IS FPR (BAFO)
- HAVE PATIENCE W/ PROCESS
- IF IN COMPETITIVE RANGE – IMPROVE TECHNICALLY – MORE OF SAME IS NOT = TO BETTER

## SUGGESTIONS     (CONT’D)

- HAVE COST BACK-UP; IDC RATES
- INITIATE POST-AWARD CONFERENCE TO ENSURE NUTS & BOLTS UNDERSTANDINGS
- REGARD (PRESENT/PAST) PERFORMANCE SERIOUSLY
- IF NOT AWARDED – GET POST AWARD DEBRIEFING
- IF AWARDED – GET POST AWARD DEBRIEFING
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## Role of Transit in the U.S. DOT Congestion Mitigation Initiative

- Walter Kulyk, P.E.
- Director, Office of Mobility Innovation
- Federal Transit Administration
- U.S. DOT Executive Session
- ITS America’s 2007 Annual Meeting
- Palm Springs, California
- June 5, 2007

## Overview

- Transit in the United States
- Transit ITS
- Transit’s Role in the U.S. DOT Congestion Mitigation Initiative
- Future of Transit in Mitigating Congestion

## Transit in the United States

- More than 6,000 public transportation providers
- 65,000 buses; 140,000 directional route miles
- 15,000 rail vehicles; 9,800 directional route miles
- Transit’s growth rate over the last decade
- Transit Trip Types
- Work = 54%
- School = 15%
- Shopping = 9%

- Source: American Public Transportation Association Website (www.APTA.com)

## Transit in the United States (continued)

- Ridership Trends

- Source: Report Year 2005 National Transit Summaries and Trends

## Transit in the United States (continued)

- Ridership Trends (continued)

- Source: Report Year 2005 National Transit Summaries and Trends

## Transit in the United States (continued)

- Vehicle Revenue Miles Trends

- Source: Report Year 2005 National Transit Summaries and Trends

## Transit in the United States (continued)

- Vehicle Revenue Miles Trends (continued)

- Source: Report Year 2005 National Transit Summaries and Trends

## 81% of Americans Support Increased Investment in Transit

Transit ...
Eases Traffic Congestion
Provided Mobility for Seniors
Provides Access to Rural Areas
Reduces Energy Consumption
Improves Air Quality
Ensures Safety

- Transit ...
- Eases Traffic Congestion
- Provided Mobility for Seniors
- Provides Access to Rural Areas
- Reduces Energy Consumption
- Improves Air Quality
- Ensures Safety

- Source: American Public Transportation Association Website (www.APTA.com)

- Transit in the United States (continued)

## Transit ITS

- Fleet Management
- Electronic Payment

## Transit ITS (continued)

- Traveler Information
- Rail ITS
- Safety / Mobility

## Transit’s Role in the Congestion Mitigation Initiative

- Service Modifications to Accommodate Demand
- Improved Traveler Information

## Transit’s Role in the Congestion Mitigation Initiative (continued)

- Universal Electronic Payment
- Park-and-Ride Improvements

## Future of Transit in Mitigating Congestion

-  High Performance Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
- Rail Transit

## Future of Transit in Mitigating Congestion (continued)

- Integrated Corridor Management
- Transportation Demand Management
- Coordinating Land Use and Transportation

## Thank You

- Walter Kulyk, P.E.
- Director, Office of Mobility Innovation
- Federal Transit Administration (FTA), TRI-10
- 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE
- Washington, D.C. 20590
- Phone: (202) 366-4991
- E-mail: walter.kulyk@dot.gov
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## Barriers to Logic

- Laziness
- Pretentiousness
- Skepticism
- Wishful thinking
- Rationalizing
- External influences

- LL12.1.1 - Barriers to Logic

## Hypothetical Syllogism

*Major Premise*:  If Brown wrote the book, it is a good book.
*Minor Premise*:  Brown did write the book.
*Conclusion*:  It is a good book.
*Major Premise*:  If Brown wrote the book, it is a good book.
*Minor Premise*:  Brown did not write the book.
*Conclusion*:  It is not a good book.

- LL12.1.2 - Hypotehetical Syllogism
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## Sources of  Bank Charter Values

- Frederick Furlong
- and
- Simon H. Kwan
- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Disclaimer: Do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve

## Rebound in BHC charter value ratios

## Outline

**Potential reasons for positive charter values in banking**
**Developments in U. S. banking that may have affected charter values**
**Data and empirical model**
**Empirical findings on factor affecting charter value ratios**

## Bank-specific factors affecting CV

**Funding**
**Federal safety net, reliance on insured deposits**
**Other sources of funding**
**Transactions services (access to payments system)**
**Portfolio lending**
**Synergies in deposit taking and lending**
**Other Non-interest income **
**Credit services—e.g.  loan commitments**
**Economies of scope in financial services**
**Operational efficiency**
**Economies of scale**
**X efficiency**

## Developments in U. S. banking that may have affected charter values

**Restructuring**
**Financial innovation**
**Adoption of technology affecting operational efficiency**
**Legislative, regulatory, supervisory initiatives to limit conjectural guarantees from federal safety net**

## Empirical Model

## Empirical Model

## Empirical Model

## Empirical Model

## Data

**Federal Reserve Y-9C data**
**Sample period: 1986 Q2 to 2003 Q4**
**Sub-periods: 1986 Q2 to 1994 Q4**
**	****    ****1995 Q1 to 2003 Q4**
**BHC stock price data from CRSP**
**Final sample: 624 BHCs with 22,338 firm-quarter obs.**
**Size classes:  Large     (top 10****th**** percentile by assets)**
**	****	****	****    ****Medium (50****th****  to 90****th**** percentile )**
**	****	****	****    ****Small      (bottom 50****th**** percentile)**

## Stock index and bank charter value ratios

## BHC-specific and macro financial effects

## BHC-specific effects—deposit shares

## Declining transactions deposit shares

## BHC-specific effects—loan shares

## Real estate loan shares

## BHC-specific effects—non-interest shares

## BHC-specific effects—non-interest shares

## Rising non-interest income shares

## BHC-specific effects—size & efficiency

## BHC-specific effects—size & efficiency

## Rise in efficiency

## Conclusions

**Bank-specific characteristics**
**Deposits: consistent positive effects from transactions and core deposits on CV ratios**
**No change in marginal effects, decline in shares**** **
**Portfolio lending: only consistent positive effect on CV ratios from consumer lending for large BHCs**** **
**Non-interest revenues: consistent positive effect on CV ratio for large BHCs**
**Increase in marginal effect, rise in share**
**CV ratios related to measure of efficiency**
**No change in marginal effect, rise in measured efficiency**
**Macro financial variable appear to have contributed to movements and some of the net rise in measured CV ratios**
# Presentation: 667401

## CRESTOR® (ZD4522, rosuvastatin calcium) TABLETS Comments on Efficacy 

**Joy Mele**
**FDA Statistical Reviewer**
**Division of Biometrics 2**

**Center for Drug Evaluation and Research**** **

## Comments on Efficacy

**Rosuvastatin Effect on LDL**
**Studies 8, 33 and 65**
**Comparison of Rosuvastatin and Atorvastatin **
**Studies 33 and 65**
**Rosuvastatin Effect on HDL**

## Three Dose Response StudiesType IIa/IIb Patients

**Study ****	****Doses****	****    Sample Size    Baseline LDL**** ****	****	****	****	****	****per arm**
**  **
** ****	****8****	****     ROSU 1-40            14-18****	****             ~190****	**
** **
**  ****33****	****     ROSU    5-80         38-45****	****             ~191****	**
**	****	****     ****ATOR  10-80 **
**  ****65****	****     ROSU 10-80         158-163****	****   ~189**
**	****	****     ****ATOR 10-80****	**

## LDL Mean % Change from Baseline for the Dose Range of Rosuvastatin

## Comparability of Rosuvastatin and Atorvastatin

**Rosuvastatin is significantly more potent on mg per mg basis**
**What doses are comparable?**
**2x? 4x?**
**Treatment difference and 95% CI**

## Rosuvastatin vs. 2x AtorvastatinStudies 33 + 65  -  LDL % change from baselineTreatment Differences and 95% CI

## Rosuvastatin 40  vs. Atorvastatin 80Study 65 - LDL % Change from Baseline LOCF

## Rosuvastatin vs. 4x Atorvastatin Studies 33 + 65  -  LDL % change from baseline  Mean Treatment Differences and 95% CI

## HDL % Change from Baseline Rosuvastatin Compared to Placebo

**Study****	****    BSL     0****	****        5****	****          10****	****   20****	****       40        80**
**   ****8****	****    ~50****	****   +3%****	****     **_**+13%**_**     **_**+14%**_**     +8%       +9%**
**  ****23****	****    ~55****	****   +3%****	****	****	****	****	****   +11%   **_**+15%**_
**  ****24        ~49****	****   +4%****	****     **_**+12%**_**     **_**+12%**_
**  ****35****	****   ~35****	****   -2%****	****      +4%       **_**+6%**_**     **_**+18%**_**    **_**+15%**_**    **_**+10%**_
***Treatment group n<30 in Studies 8, 23 and 35; ~128 in Study 24***

## HDL % Change from Baseline for Atorvastatin and Rosuvastatin Study 65  Type IIa/IIb 

## Summary

**Rosuvastatin achieves about 4% more mean LDL-lowering than 2 times the dose of atorvastatin**
**	****	****	**
**The HDL effects are variable**
**No dose response relationship**
**Small increase for 20 mg over 10 mg**
**Consistent with the statin class**
# Presentation: 551105

## A Fundamental Test of Universality:Transverse Spin Drell Yan at RHIC vs Sivers Asymmetry in Deep Inelastic Scattering

- Important test at RHIC of recent _fundamental QCD predictions_ for the Sivers effect, demonstrating... _**attractive vs repulsive **__**c**__**o**__**l**__**o**__**r**__** charge forces**_
-                              **----------------**
- Possible access to quark _**orbital angular momentum**_
- Requires very high luminosity (RHIC II)
- Both STAR and PHENIX can make important, exciting, measurements
- Discussion available at _http://spin.riken.bnl.gov/rsc/_

## Attractive vs Repulsive “Sivers” Effects

**Drell-Yan: repulsive**

**Attractive vs Repulsive “Sivers” Effects**
**Unique Prediction of Gauge Theory !**

**Sivers = **_**Dennis Sivers**_** (predicted orbital angular**
**                    ****momentum origin of transverse asymmetries)**

##   Experiment SIDIS vs Drell Yan:  Sivers|DIS= − Sivers|DY

-   ***0.1        0.2        0.3   x***

-   ***Sivers Amplitude***

**0**

**0**

-   **Experiment SIDIS vs Drell Yan:  ****Sivers|****DIS****= − Sivers|****DY**
** ******* Probes Q****C****D**** attraction and Q****C****D**** repulsion *****

- HERMES Sivers Results

- RHIC II  Drell Yan Projections

- Markus Diefenthaler
- DIS Workshop
- Munich, April 2007
# Presentation: 295198

## Tuesday (Mar. 1)  12pm - Sun (Mar. 6) 8pm: 128 hours

**Tuesday (Mar. 1)  12pm - Sun (Mar. 6) 8pm: 128 hours**
-                          Data Taking time: 39.5 hours
-                                                                                                      = ~**84%**
- Beam time with collisions (including short stores): 47.3 hours

- Angle Scan

**ZDC/sec in BRAHMS**

## Crossing-Angle Scan: (half store: Sun 10am – 1pm)

**Crossing-Angle Scan: (half store: Sun 10am – 1pm)**

- Yellow Horizontal +
- (ZDC~15% increase)

**ZDC**

**Background**

## Crossing Angle Scan(data taken at the maximum allowed angles)

|  | Yellow | Blue |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Horizontal + | 0.05 mrad | 0.37 mrad |
| Horizontal - | 0.45 mrad | 0.7 mrad |
| Vertical + | 0.39 mrad | 0.15 mrad |
| Vertical - | 0.6 mrad | 0.65 mrad |

**Blue Beam**

## Slide 4

## BRAHMS Cu+Cu Status

- CuCu at 200 GeV Data Summary
-      - ~1.75 nb-1 Cu+Cu 200 GeV recorded (Jan. 16th - Mar. 8th )
-      - 56M MRS 103M FFS Triggers collected
-      - ~75% of the Goal Achieved
-      - Data taken for the All angle/field settings planned
- Physics
-      - Identified Charged hadron yields in 0< y <3.8
-      - High-pt Physics at y~1,2,3
-      - Crossing-Angle scan for SMD done
- 62 GeV
-      - ZDC HV changed (+700V: same as AuAu 62 GeV settings)
-      - Spectrometer Triggers modified
-      - Identified Particle Yields in 0<y<3
-      - High-pt Physics at y~1
# Presentation: 149108

## Multicast Registration

**IONET**

**MCC**

**GO**

**White **
**Sands**

**TDRSS**

**Tracking**
**#1**

**Tracking**
**#2**

**Routers Proxy **
**Multicast Registration**
**For Spacecraft**

**Multicast Protocol**
**Pares Extra Links**

## On Launch Pad

**IONET**

**MCC**

**GO**

**White **
**Sands**

**TDRSS**

**Tracking**
**#1**

**Tracking**
**#2**

**1.  Radios turned ON at Ground**
**     ****Operations and White Sands**

**2.  RF connectivity established**

**MCC sends command using**
**      ****Multicast**

## Launch to Orbit

**IONET**

**MCC**

**GO**

**White **
**Sands**

**TDRSS**

**Tracking**
**#1**

**Tracking**
**#2**

**1.  Radios turned ON at Ground**
**     ****Operations and White Sands**

**2.  RF connectivity established**

**MCC sends command using**
**      ****Multicast**

## On Orbit

**IONET**

**MCC**

**GO**

**White **
**Sands**

**TDRSS**

**Tracking**
**#1**

**Tracking**
**#2**

**1.  Radios turned ON at Ground**
**     ****Operations and White Sands**

**2.  RF connectivity established**

**MCC sends command using**
**      ****Multicast**

## Some Possibilities(These May or MAY NOT be good ideas.)

**IONET**

**MCC**

**GO**

**White **
**Sands**

**TDRSS**

**Tracking**
**#1**

**Tracking**
**#2**

- Some Possibilities(These May or MAY NOT be good ideas.)

**Flight**
**Computer**

**Unicast**
**Command**

**IPsec Multicast**
**Command**

**Unicast**
**Command**

## Conclusions base on Experience. Deployments and Observations

- When it is all said and done you WILL implement multiple mechanisms to get to the vehicle.
- Mobile-NETWORKING (nemo) is a protocol that may be useful – particularly for LEO.
- Limited strategic deployment of static routing is useful.
- Default routes are useful.
- Dynamic routing may be useful.
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (manet) may be useful.
- While on the pad or in testing at the factory is the most simplistic network of all and easy to solve as there is no real time-sensitive mobility.
- Launch and Reentry are the hardest to solve and communications is most critical at this point in the mission.

## Launch / Reentry Requirements

- No loss of contact with the vehicle if at all possible
- For the must part, any practical route convergence time is associated with dynamic routing is unacceptable
- For the most part, any route time-outs as a result of mobile-ip or dynamic routing are unacceptable
- Bandwidth is at a minimum during launch and re-entry.  Additional bandwidth is not available to allow routing protocols to run with reduced timers –- particularly since it still will probably not get me the convergence time I want.
- Use of static routes is problematic and should be avoided.
- To easy to misconfigure
- Difficult to trouble-shoot
- Predictive static routing is really a new routing protocol.
# Presentation: 501060

## Hierarchical Models And The Analysis Of Survey InformationExample Analysis

- John R. Sauer,William A. Link,
- and J Andrew Royle*USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center,*
*and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service**11510 American Holly Drive** Laurel, Maryland 20708, USA*

## The Santa Rosa Bird Data

- These data are similar to the BBS
- Spatial structure
- Points
- Transects
- Island
- Bad Features
- Missing data
- Confounding

## Distance Data Are Available

- Can use program DISTANCE
- Estimate observer-specific detection rates
- Effective Radii (EDR)
- Easier to adjust areas of counting in analysis
- 3 observers:
- TJC:  (EDR: 16.258, area= 0.0830 km^2)
- GSA:  (EDR: 27.8, area= 0.2428 km^2)
- LCD:  (EDR: 16.60, area= 0.0866 km^2)

## Set up Hierarchical Model

- Points analogous to BBS Routes
- Transects similar to strata
- Island result aggregate of transects
- Adjust for differing areas of counting
- Unbalanced data greatly complicated analysis
- Can’t implement full model
- Fitting issues

## Model Structure (BUGS Code)

- for( k in 1 : ncounts ) {
- log(lambda[k]) <- pts[point[k]] + noise[k] +Yeareffect[year[k]]  + logareas[year[k]]
- noise[k] ~ dnorm(0.0, taunoise),  count[k] ~ dpois(lambda[k]) }
- taunoise ~ dgamma(0.001,0.001)
- for( i in 1 : npoints ) { pts[i] ~ dnorm( 0.0,taupts)       }
- taupts ~ dgamma(0.001,0.001)
- for( y in 1 : nyears ) {yeareffect[y] ~ dnorm( 0.0, 1.0E-3)
- logareas[y] <-log(area[y])}
- for( t in 1 : nyears ) { n[t] <- exp(yeareffect[t])   }
- # nyears for this example, due to lost year!
- 	  B <- pow(n[nyears]/n[1],1/(nyears))

## Hierarchical Model Plotted vs Area-Adjusted Means

## Estimated Trend

- Hierarchical model -15.54 %/year (-23.65,-5.95)
- “Naïve” trend:  0.29 %/year

## Diagnostics include:

- Autocorrelations of the MCMC “Replicates.” and

- Plots of Estimates During Process

- Modeling requires some expertise!
# Presentation: 526691

## Weather Briefing

- June 28 10:00 CDT

## Verification

- Yesterday’s Forecast

## http://climate.ocs.ou.edu/rainfall_update.html

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Observations

## Link to Satellite Loop

- _[http://adds.aviationweather.gov/satellite/displaySat.php?region=US&isingle=multiple&itype=](http://adds.aviationweather.gov/satellite/displaySat.php?region=US&isingle=multiple&itype=ir)__[ir](http://adds.aviationweather.gov/satellite/displaySat.php?region=US&isingle=multiple&itype=ir)_

## Slide 8

- _[http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/southplains_loop.](http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/southplains_loop.php)__[php](http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/southplains_loop.php)_

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## METARs 

**METARs**
- (9 am CDT)
**PNC**: **Ceiling:** 900 feet AGL
**Clouds:** broken clouds at 900 feet AGL
**OKC**: **Ceiling:** 600 feet AGL
**Clouds:** broken clouds at 600 feet AGLovercast cloud deck at 1200 feet AGL
**END**: **Ceiling:** 1200 feet AGL
**Clouds:** scattered clouds at 300 feet AGLovercast cloud deck at 1200 feet AGL

## Slide 19

## Forecasts

## Slide 21

## Slide 22

## Slide 23

## Slide 24

## Slide 25

## Slide 26

## Slide 28

## Slide 29

## Slide 30

- _[http://science.arm.gov/clasic/forecasts.](http://science.arm.gov/clasic/forecasts.php)__[php](http://science.arm.gov/clasic/forecasts.php)_

- _[http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrf/sdg/](http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrf/sdg/)_

## Extended Outlook

## Slide 34

## Slide 35

## Slide 36

## Slide 37
# Presentation: 362940

## Intelligent Robot/Sensor Operations System

**Intelligent Robot/Sensor Operations System**

**S**mall
**B**usiness
**I**nnovation
**R**esearch

**Cybernet Systems Corporation**

- Ann Arbor, MI

**INNOVATION**
- Operator controlled robotic arm supported by a vision location system, a tactile feedback hand controller, and a graphical 3-D computer representation
**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Machine vision algorithms developed for 3-dimensional object localization and tracking
- Algorithms developed for a CAD-based graphical representation of robotic arm and object field
- Completed system integration
-                **COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Supervised autonomous factory equipment (SAFE) for lifting, kiting and assembly will remove workers from hazardous working conditions
- SAFE technology under joint development with Ford Motor Company, United Auto Workers, and Air Force/Army human engineering
- Sales have reached $550,000 per year and growing for systems including force reflecting and CAD capabilities
- Promising new market in toys and games area under development

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Servicing satellites in space
- Inspection and servicing of shuttle payloads
- Assembly and maintenance of space structures
- Vision capabilities have led to contracts with Army for missile tracking

***Human Directed Robotic Assembly***

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Success Story #012

- 1990 Phase II; NAS7-1189
- NASA/JPL Contact - Neville Marzwell
- Company Contact - Charles Jacobus
# Presentation: 049618

## Photo chc_uw_intro.jpg

- “The Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research was formed to learn more about children’s susceptibility to pesticides and the ways pesticides affect normal development and learning.”

## Photo chc_uw_1.jpg

- “The Pesticide Exposure Pathways Project at the University of Washington’s Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research uses environmental modeling, environmental sampling, child activity analysis, biological monitoring and analysis of aerial photography to characterize the exposure pathways for children living in agricultural communities. This photo is of a child wearing a GPS-PAL in a vest. The dashed lines indicate location of components inside the vest. Clothing does not block reception.”

## Photo chc_uw_2.jpg

- “The resolution of the child-worn GPS-PAL tracking system can differentiate between distinct inside and outside areas. The dashed lines indicate the path of a child over the course of a day.”

## Photo chc_uw_3.jpg

- “When a plan of a structure  is laid over the child’s path, the GPS-PAL system can track inside structures as well.”

## Photo chc_uw_4.jpg

- “The Community-based Participatory Research Project  at the University of Washington’s Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research investigates the multiple pathways that contribute to children's pesticide exposure in an agricultural community in Washington state.”

## Photo chc_uw_6.jpg

- “Community-based Participatory Research project staff member Lupe Sotelo explains how to reduce take-home pesticide exposure at a home in the Yakima Valley, Washington. Photo: Gloria Coronado.”

## Photo chc_uw_7.jpg

- “The Community-based Participatory Research project joins other Yakima Valley-based health and wellness groups at  community health fairs to share information about reducing pesticide exposure. Photo: Gloria Coronado.”

## Photo chc_uw_8.jpg

- “Handing out toys such as frisbees and basketballs draws kids to the Community-based Participatory Research project’s table where they learn simple things to help reduce their exposure to pesticides. Photo: Gloria Coronado.”

## Photo chc_uw_9.jpg

- “The Community-based Participatory Research project recruits families with small children to learn more about children in agricultural communities are exposed to pesticides.  Photo: Gloria Coronado.”

## Photo chc_uw_10.jpg

- “After a series of presentations made in second and third grade classrooms by the Community-based Participatory Research project, students were invited to enter a coloring contest. Winning entries were included in a calendar. In this drawing, the woman tells the man to wash his own clothes because she’s going to a dance...and reminds him to leave his boots outside.  Photo: Gloria Coronado.”

## Photo chc_uw_11.jpg

- “The Pesticide Exposure Pathways uses LIDAR to track a spray drift event over an orchard in an agricultural area of Washington state. The data will be used to develop a spatial model.  Photo: Robert Crampton.”
# Presentation: 886812

## Travel Procedures

- Irwin Gaines
- Computing Division
- 31-Aug-2006

## Good news and bad news

- Travel policy must facilitate travelers making the trips they need, and avoid frustrating administrative staff (caught in the middle between travelers and lab administration)
- Things are getting better
- Still problems due to inconsistent and undocumented procedures
- To us it seems like there is a reluctance to write procedures down
- Some trips work fine, others have problems
- Problems do not appear to be the fault of DOE, but rather due to FNAL shooting themselves in the foot
- Examples: foreign travel, and conferences

## Foreign Travel

- Division task force 3 years ago made a set of recommendations:
- Process definition and documentation: there needs to be a clearly written procedure governing foreign travel, specifying all stages of the pre and post trip process
- Communication: Up to date information should be available online to allow both traveler and administrative staff to view the status of any pending travel request
- Make clear to traveler what their responsibilities are
- Relax reapproval requirement for itinerary changes of less than 3 days
- Work with 2nd floor to understand what information on FTMS form is most critical
- Ensure trips to sensitive countries are processed at high priority

## Foreign travel

- Prioritization of trips is better
- Process flow is clearer (greater understanding that tickets can be purchased as soon as division approves trip)
- Still no clear written procedures laying out all elements of process
- Occasional over zealousness can significantly slow approval process down

## Conferences

- Good that it is recognized that there are many trips that do not fall under the conference order at all (N/A on travel form)
- But there is no lab standard policy for deciding when this applies
- And multiple instances of conference data bases makes extra work for admin staff
- Serious impact on attendance at scientific conferences

## Recommendations

- Process Documentation
- Process Uniformity
- Collegial, not adversarial
- Take advantages of opportunities offered by DOE (they actually are on our side!)
# Presentation: 199125

**2003 NCPV Meeting**

**Process Control Advancements for Flexible CIGS PV Module Manufacturing**

## Thin Film CIGS on Low-Cost, Lightweight Substrates

- **Thin Film CIGS on Low-Cost, Lightweight Substrates**

- **Roll-Roll Continuous**
**	****Processing**

## advanced automation in module assembly 

- **substantial production increase in 2003**

## Product Evolution

**Œ****	****roll-to-roll TF deposition**

******	****grid deposition and cell ****	****singulation**

**Ž****	****encapsulation**

******	****application**

## GSE’s Portable Power Packs (P3s)

- **GSE’s Portable Power Packs (P3s)**

******	****portability, lightweight, flexible, compact,**
** ****	****	****durable, maintenance free**

******	****superior power/weight, 12 or 24V ****load, 12 to 56W**

## GSE’s flexible, light weight TF products rival those of the competition

- **GSE’s Solarized TEMPER Tent**

******	****24 or 48V load, up to 2.6kW**

******	****24 or 48V load, 120VAC inverter, ****	****up to 2.8kW**

**2.6kW STT Installed on 20’ x 32’ Tent Fly (1.3kW Unseen on Opposite Tent Face)**

- **GSE’s Tactical AC Systems**

**Subarray – Stowed & Deployed, blending**
**with terrain**