At a January press conference at the

University of California, Berkeley

Commerce Secretary William M.

Daley announced that the Office of

Technology Policy (OTP) would

hold a series of regional town meetings to discuss the growing need for

developing an information technology work force.

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Office of Technology Policy ■ U.S. Department of Commerce

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IN THIS ISSUE

New Technology

Grants Program

Page 3

Gulf States IT Town

Meeting

Page 4

Tech Crews: 

A DOC-Funded

Student Work Force

Page 5

A Magnet School

Page 6

New Generation

Vehicles

Page 7

Something to Talk

About in the Next

Pacesetter

Page 8

OTP was pleased to respond to a

Maryland request to hold the first

meeting in Montgomery County.

The day began with a roundtable

discussion as area CEOs joined

Commerce Secretary Daley,

Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes (DMD) and Congresswoman Connie

Morella (R-MD) in an open dialogue

of concerns, suggestions

and success stories. This

was followed by a general plenary session and

breakout groups on specific topics.

Participants agreed area

firms were having trouble filling current open

job positions, and that

the tight job market is

limiting growth and the

creation of wealth

throughout the country.

Area employers noted

that with an unemployment rate of around 2

percent, upgrading skills

of the current work force

is a critical need. Several

innovative practices and

partnerships were identified: TRACOR has developed effective linkages

with community colleges

and the University of

Maryland to establish

curriculum and train employees.

SAIC has put 350 courses on desktops to help employees get the certification they need. The Maryland

Partnership for Workforce Quality

Maryland IT Town Meeting

News From the Office of Technology Policy ■ Summer 1998

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PACESETTER

■ Top: Secretary William M. Daley shares a

laugh with the audience during his speech.

■ Bottom: Secretary Daley takes his turn

answering press questions. To his left,

Senator Sarbanes, Rep. Connie Morella.

Standing in the background, Gary R. Bachula,

Acting Under Secretary for Technology, Kelly

H. Carnes, Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Technology.

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Careers in Science and Technology

was the theme at the Department of

Commerce-sponsored “Take Our

Children to Work” day on April 23.

The Technology Administration to

coordinated Department events that

would actually give students an idea

of exciting career opportunities. The

Department hosted more than 400

children at various Commerce locations for the all-day event.

Morning events at the Hoover building were hands-on and included a

continued on page 2

■ Top: Secretary Daley signs temporary 

ID badges and takes questions from the

audience.

■ Bottom: Pat Flaherty explains the future

of the automobile. Ms. Flaherty is a Fellow

at the Technology Administration on loan

from the Chrysler Corporation. continued on page 2

Take Our 

Children to Work

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2

PACESETTER ■ Office of Technology Policy Summer 1998

MARYLAND

TOWN MEETING

Dr. Robert S. Ludley , a winner

of the 1997 National Medal of

Technology takes his seat amid

applause during the Maryland

town meeting. Dr. Ludley discussed three new initiatives

announced by Secretary Daley

that the Medal program will initiate this fall: Tech talks at science

and technology museums; a

Speaker’s Bureau; and Technology

Mentoring on-line for K-12 students. These new programs will

be profiled in-depth in the fall

edition of the Pacesetter. ■

shares costs with companies for

upgrading the skills of current workers serving 227 companies in 1997.

Across the board, it was noted K-12

education needs improvement as

does teacher training.

Congresswoman Morella emphasized the need to interest more

Take Our Children to Work from page 1

virtual trade mission, a mock press

conference, web page design classes,

a videoconference, a moot court and

other events designed to explain the

work done by DOC employees.

The afternoon program hosted by

Secretary Daley included “Speaker’s

Corners” and allowed the children

to interact with the presenters.

Guest speakers included: a NOAA

“Hurricane Hunter” pilot, a meteorologist, a NIST scientist, ship captains, and a Detroit auto executive

illustrating present and future cars.

A representative from the Patent

and Trademark office used Beanie

Babies and crayons to talk about

safeguarding and marketing intellectual property through the use of

patents and trademarks.

Children coming to the DOC did

more than shadow their parents.

They got a real day’s worth of events

designed to capture their imagination, while stressing the importance

of math and science in school.

Parting gift bags included a metric

ruler, conversion chart, Year of the

Ocean poster and workbook, and a

book entitled, “Daniel and his

Electric Car.” ■

Maryland IT Town Meeting from page 1

■ Top: Maryland

Congresswoman

Connie Morella

and Secretary

Daley discuss

the details.

■ Bottom:

Secretary Daley

and Maryland

Senator Paul

Sarbanes

exchange

thoughts after 

the speech.

women and minorities in the fields

of science and engineering, while

improving access to the Internet in

classrooms. Senator Sarbanes discussed his bill to sponsor regional

training councils. Secretary Daley

reminded the audience IT is responsible for more than 25% of economic growth and that there are currently 20,000 high technology jobs

open in the state of Maryland.

The May event was sponsored by

the Greater Montgomery County

Chamber of Commerce, the High

Technology Council of Maryland,

the Montgomery County

Department of Economic

Development, The Montgomery

County Workforce Development

Corporation, and the Shady Grove

campus of the University System of

Maryland which hosted the event at

its Shady Grove Campus.

(All town meetings are being recorded and OTP will publish a summary

document at the end of the town

meeting series. The completion of

this document will be publicly

announced and available on our

web site at www.ta.doc.gov). ■

■ Secretary William M. Daley welcomes

DOC children and their parents to “Take

Our Children to Work” day.
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Summer 1998 PACESETTER ■ Office of Technology Policy

NEW GRANT

PROGRAM

On Tuesday July 14, 1998, the

Technology Administration began

accepting applications for the 1998

Grant Round of The Experimental

Program to Stimulate Competitive

Technology (EPSCoT). EPSCoT is a

new program that will support technology development, deployment

and diffusion.

Technology is a major factor, if not

the single most important factor, in

sustained economic growth.

Commerce Department research

shows that firms that adopt

advanced technology grow faster,

create more jobs and pay higher

wages.

EPSCoT will support technology

development, deployment and diffusion in eligible jurisdictions by

promoting partnerships between

state and local governments, universities, community colleges, nonprofit organizations and the private

sector. Through these partnerships,

EPSCoT seeks to support state and

local efforts to: build state-wide

institutional capacity to support

technology commercialization; create a business climate that is conducive to technology development;

deployment and diffusion; compete

in Federal R&D programs.

Successful technology development,

deployment, and diffusion drive

economic growth and are increasingly essential to U.S. competitiveness. Given the central role that

technology plays in economic

growth, all jurisdictions—federal,

state and local — are concerned

with creating and maintaining the

conditions that are conducive to the

development of new technologies,

and the adoption and diffusion of

existing ones.

In most less-populated jurisdictions,

manufacturers and industries tend to

be small, and therefore have a limited industrial research base. These

jurisdictions lack the critical mass

necessary to develop industrial clusters. Such clusters can spur a virtuous cycle of collaboration between

universities, private companies and

public sector agencies. This collaboration in turn improves a region’s

ability to anticipate and respond to

changing economic conditions.

The Technology Administration has

launched a competitive matching

grants program to address these

issues in rural states. The

Experimental Program to Stimulate

Competitive Technology (EPSCoT)

is meant to act as a catalyst for state

efforts to foster technology-based

economic growth.

EPSCoT parallels the National

Science Foundation’s Experimental

Program to Stimulate Competitive

Research (EPSCoR). While

EPSCoR’s primary emphasis is

improving the competitive performance of major research universities

of these jurisdictions, EPSCoT seeks

to support state efforts to improve

the commercial environment for

R&D, and is meant to assist jurisdictions in their attempts to promote technology development,

deployment and diffusion by

improving the commercial environment for R&D. A strategy for doing

so should build on the resources of

The Technology Administration Announces A New 

Grants Program to Assist States Develop Technology

the state government, research universities, community colleges, vocational schools, business community,

finance community and any federal

resources the jurisdiction may have.

Applicants must be headquartered in

a jurisdiction that is eligible to participate in the National Science

Foundation’s

Experimental Program

to Stimulate

Competitive Research

(EPSCoR). These are

Alabama, Arkansas,

Idaho, Kansas,

Kentucky, Louisiana,

Maine, Mississippi,

Montana, Nebraska,

Nevada, North Dakota,

Oklahoma, South

Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont,

West Virginia, Wyoming and the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The Request for Proposals (RFP)

can be found on the Technology

Administration’s web site

http:\\www.ta.doc.gov

For the 1998 Grant Round, approximately $1.6 million is available. We

expect to award between four to six

grants in this Round. The Winter

PACESETTER will highlight the

winning grants. ■

Successful 

technology 

development,

deployment, 

and diffusion

drive economic

growth and are

increasingly

essential to U.S.

competitiveness.

EPSCoT

This new grants program will award 4-6 grants to help under

represented states develop technology. The Winter PACESETTER

will highlight the winners.
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PACESETTER ■ Office of Technology Policy Summer 1998

TECH

TRAVELS

At the invitation of Majority Leader,

Trent Lott (R-MS), the Office of

Technology Policy (OTP) and the

Department of Education joined

forces with the National Science

Foundation (NSF) to participate in

a Gulf States town meeting hosted

by Jones County Junior College

(JCJC). This small campus in rural

Mississippi is located in a city of

only 3,600 people, yet it is a recipient of NSF’s Advanced

Technological Education grant, and

drew participants from Georgia,

Tennessee, Alabama, California and

the Pacific Northwest to this event.

Rep. Charles (Chip) Pickering (RMS) joined us by videotape to thank

JCJC President, Dr. Ronald

Whitehead for his role in organizing

the event. The Congressman suggested Mississippi was a natural

meeting place as “we have gone

from being the home of cotton,

chicken and catfish to the home of

WorldCom, the leading provider of

Internet services, Skytel and other

leaders in telecommunications.”

The academic setting naturally gave

the meeting a focus on education.

OTP continues to hear concerns

and complaints about basic K-12

education in this country, that

teachers are not trained to fully use

computers and the Internet as

learning tools, and that companies

are often forced to assist their

employees in remedial education as

well as technical training. This was

a theme that the Basic Math and

Science Competencies focus group

presented at the January Berkeley

convocation, and it has repeated

itself in business roundtable discussions and break out sessions in subsequent public forums.

At this town meeting, the educators

were not shy in taking the floor,

echoing that problem, venting their

Gulf States IT Town Meeting

Ellisville, Mississippi

frustrations and suggesting solutions. From the high school teachers

we met in inner city New Orleans

to the junior college professors at

JCJC, they spoke passionately of

low salaries, lack of teacher aides,

classrooms of multi-language, multicultural students, lack of parental

involvement, drugs, crime, gangs

and poverty. Learning how to use

the Internet in the face of such

overwhelming challenges slides

down the priority list.

Educators suggested a “Teacher’s

Co-op” which already has established itself in Seattle as a pilot program. Teachers enjoy a joint

appointment with their school district and with a local business or

industry. Depending on the academic calendar, summers are often spent

on the manufacturing floor or office

headquarters learning the latest

technology. This is on-going, handson teacher training that results in

up-to-date classroom instruction,

higher teacher salaries and interaction with the community—a winwin solution that may be worthy of

expanding to school districts

around the country. ■

■ Associate Deputy

Secretary Kent

Hughes uses his

keynote address to

focus on the importance of training and

education for

Americans to excel in

the high-tech jobs 

that dominate our

economy.

Participants from

six states gather

to discuss 

IT work force 

developments.

■ Ms. Diane Warren, instructor in

Computer Information Systems Technology

at Jones County Community College

makes a point from the floor during the

town meeting.

After his formal presentation,

Associate Deputy Secretary Kent

Hughes talks to five of the 100

students enrolled in the federallyfunded Upward Bound Program

at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo,

Mississippi. These students had

plenty of questions to ask about

computers, technology and future

business opportunities after college. Even though these students

are still in high school, their goals

were firmly headed for a high tech

future, and they were full of questions about what the Commerce

Department does, potential career

opportunities for themselves in

industry, and pointers on how to

start their own business.

This intensive summer program

provides high school students with

a head start on their college careers

with classes in math, science and

foreign language as well as a wide

variety of cultural enrichment

opportunities. Students can choose

from a wide range of

interests–drama, choir, photography and karate in addition to a

series of educational field trips. ■
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Summer 1998 PACESETTER ■ Office of Technology Policy

TECH STUDENTS 

AT WORK

While in Ellisville, Mississippi for

the IT town meeting, OTP took a

side trip to Jackson, to visit the state

Department of Education to learn

about Tech Crews, a project funded

by the U.S. Department of Commerce

through a TIIAP (Telecommunications

and Information Infrastructure

Assistant Program) grant.

Tech Crews are student volunteers

trained in network operations, web

design and computer software. On

the first NetDay in 1997, these

newly-trained students gathered in

St. Joseph High School to assess the

internal wiring needs to operate a

computer network. Says Technology

Specialist Ellen Burnham, “Tech

crew members divided into teams,

some measured the hallways, others

looked in the ceiling to discover the

secrets it held, still other checked

out the electrical panel, phone box,

patch panel location and checked to

make sure the requested drops

were in appropriate places.” After

the initial survey, the crews

debated how best to wire the

school and drew up a plan.

By 7AM the next morning,

Tech Crews:

A DOC-funded Student Work Force

the student crew had reassembled

to start the arduous task of bringing

the high school into the digital age. 

In addition to each tech crew developing a local area network in their

own school, they have gone on to

wire the local hospital so their fellow students can stay in touch with

e-mail and class assignments while

hospitalized.

Not everyone was an instant believer in the abilities of these young

teenagers. In Greenville, a skeptical

school board embraced the networking idea only after students

showed up one night to teach board

members how to use e-mail! ■

■ Student artwork graces the hallways and

skylights of the building that houses the

Mississippi State Department of Education.

This paper paper mache classroom takes

us from chalkboard to computer terminal in

a scene entitled, “The Joy of Learning” presented by 4th-6th grades from the Newton

County Elementary School.

The fear of math is being tackled by

an innovative program called the

Algebra Project. During our recent

visit to Louisiana-Mississippi, we

visited with Professor Staff as

Broussard at the University of New

Orleans and several high school

teachers to talk about the challenges

of teaching inner city students.

Tackling the fear of math, equations

and working with abstract concepts

is the brain child of Bob Moses, a

mathematician and civil rights

leader who developed a program to

help inner city and rural middleschool students. He got his start

with a “genius grant” from the

MacArthur Foundation to establish

a program that would deliver his

innovative curriculum.

Dr. Broussard says one of the key

points in helping students develop a

positive attitude that translates into

problem-solving skills, is to get

them out of the classroom. Field

trips involve students in a five-step

process in which they use their

physical surroundings as tangible

references for mathematical ideas.

The Algebra Project has been so

successful, that this project which

started in the rural South, has now

been duplicated around the country

including a school in Baltimore,

Maryland. ■

The Algebra Project

The Algebra

Project has been

so successful,

that this project

which started in

the rural South,

has now been

duplicated

around the 

country.

■ Technical Assistant, Robin Sutliff talks

about Tech Crew successes in the video

conferencing center at the State

Department of Mississippi.

IT Town Meeting Series

Commerce Secretary William

M. Daley will host a Pacific

Northwest town meeting at

Bellevue Community College

near Seattle Washington on

August 18. At the event, the

Secretary is expected to

unveil a new IT resource

guide home page hosted by

the Office of Technology

Policy.
The school boasts hand-picked

teachers with advanced degrees in

the subjects they teach and up-todate equipment. The school is 65

percent female and 93 percent

African-American. Seventy percent

of the students are at the poverty

line or below. This school is open

to motivated students who want to

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PACESETTER ■ Office of Technology Policy Summer 1998

TECH 

CREW

In Louisiana, the New Orleans

Center for Science and Math takes

a different approach to learning.

More than 300 students with a

broad range of abilities attend this

school with hands-on science and

tech learning for half the day, then

return to their home high schools

the other half.

A Magnet School for the C+ Student 

Who Wants to Succeed

■ Top: Deputy Assistant Secretary Kelly Carnes, and school founder Colby "Skip"

Dempesy watch the school’s Tech Squad at work.

■ Bottom: Members of the New Orleans Tech Crew, their teachers and principal 

Barbara MacPhee take time out of their busy summer schedule to talk to DOC officials

about the program, their interest in technology and their plans for the future. Here four

Crew Members tell their stories in the school's well-equipped lab.

Medalists as

Mentors

The National Medal

Program will be launching

three new programs 

this fall: 

1. A Speaker’s Bureau

2. Tech Talks at Science

3. Technology Museums

and On-line mentoring for

K-12 students. 

Look for the details in the

next PACESETTER.

learn, not just the best and the

brightest. Principal Barbara

MacPhee has been quoted as saying

“The main mistake we (as a nation)

made, was to turn science and

math into an elite club. It was a

disastrous, unspoken public policy.”

The Tech Squad is a summer

internship program that is an initiative to create successful and stable high tech workers through a

four year program of internships

and network analyst certification.

Students receive a "13th year" of

instruction in the form of mentoring to assist their entry into a guaranteed job or higher education.

The student-teacher partnership

can prevent the crisis of confidence

which can derail the success of

inner city youth as they enter high

tech fields. ■
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Summer 1998 PACESETTER ■ Office of Technology Policy

INSPIRED

IDEAS

One Step Closer

Government, Industry Make Strides To New Generation Vehicles

It’s been called a challenge more difficult than landing the first man on

the moon. But for teams of scientists

and engineers working under the

Partnership for a New Generation of

Vehicles, that trailblazing spirit is

accelerating them closer to developing the technologies for America’s

future cars—cars which get up to

80 miles per gallon and significantly

reduce emissions while maintaining

the safety, performance and affordability of today’s cars.

The Partnership for a New

Generation of Vehicles, or simply

PNGV, is an historic alliance among

seven federal agencies, 19 government labs, 300 automotive suppliers

and the Big Three automakers—

Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.

Launched in 1993 by President Bill

Clinton and Vice President Al Gore,

PNGV has set its course on achieving three major goals:

■ Significantly improve national

competitiveness in U.S. automotive

manufacturing by upgrading manufacturing technology

■ Pursue technology advances that

can lead to fuel efficiency improvements and emission reductions in

the current generation of vehicle

designs

■ Increase fuel efficiency to up to

three times that of the average 1994

Chrysler Concorde, Ford Taurus

and Chevy Lumina automobiles

with equivalent cost of ownership

With 1998 marking the partnership’s fifth anniversary, PNGV

researchers are making solid

progress toward developing

enabling technologies for affordable,

midsize, family sedans that achieve

remarkable fuel efficiency and low

emissions levels.

In January, PNGV completed its

selection of technologies considered

to be the most promising for achieving its ambitious goals. PNGV is

now focusing its coordinated portfolio of research and development in

four key systems: hybrid-electric

vehicle drive,

direct-injection

engines, fuel

cells and lightweight materials.

During the 1998

North American

International

Auto show in

Detroit, several

advanced concepts unveiled

by Chrysler,

Ford and

General Motors

reflected the

continued

progress toward PNGV goals. “The

remarkable, new, fuel efficient,

experimental cars rolled out at the

Detroit auto show prove that our

partnership with the Big Three

automakers is showing results,” said

Vice President Gore, “and that we

can protect our environment and

meet challenges such as global

warming in a way that creates jobs

and strengthens our economy.

PNGV’s selection of these technologies for focused research brings us

one step closer to the next-generation cars that will both meet the

needs of the American families and

help us reduce pollution and protect our environment.”

Chrysler, Ford and GM are all

working on high-mileage concept

vehicles to debut in 2000.

Production prototypes will follow in

2004. The government partners, led

by the Technology Administration’s

PNGV Secretariat, and their laboratories will continue to participate in

long-range, high-risk research and

development that could yield even

greater benefits for the nation’s energy security, environment and economic well-being. ■

With 1998 

marking the 

partnership’s 

fifth anniversary,

PNGV

researchers are

making solid

progress toward

developing

enabling technologies for efficiency and low

emissions levels.
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Something to Talk About!

In the Next PACESETTER

■ America’s Automobile Industry

Cars are news. With the GM strike in

recent memory and a pending automobile

merger, auto manufacturing as we have historically known it may be changing. In the

next PACESETTER we will discuss: PNGV’s

5th Anniversary Celebration, Daimler-Benz

and Chrysler Merger: PNGV Impact, Impact

of GM strike.