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INTRODUCTION
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The Power Systems Workshop on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community was
organizer! by the staff at the National Materials Advisory Board (NMAB) of the National Research
Council (NRC) and was conducted under the intelligence community Nano-Enabled-Technology
Initiative (NETI), administered! by the staff of the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center (ITIC).
This interim report summarizes the highlights of the workshop, as directed by the statement of task for the
project as a whole; the workshop agenda is given in Appendix A. A follow-on workshop will be
conducted to explore sensing and locating technologies; summary notes from that second workshop will
also be issued as an interim report. Authored by a single appointed rapporteur attending each workshop,
these interim reports are subject to review for accuracy using normal National Academies procedures
prior to release. A third and final report will be prepared as a full consensus study by the Committee on
Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community, which was established to assist the intelligence
community by exploring the potential for nanotechnology to address key intelligence community needs.
This is a summary of workshop proceedings, including the presentations made to the committee
and the subsequent discussion. As such, it follows the interests ant! knowledge of the presenters and does
not provide a comprehensive analysis of the topics discussed. Nor does this document contain any
findings and recommendations of the committee. Rather, this summary, together with the summary of the
following workshop on sensing and locating technologies, will provide useful input to the final report, in
which the committee will offer its findings and recommendations.
The stucly sponsors provided the committee with classified background briefings on ITIC s
interest in nanotechnology-enabled opportunities in both the energy/power field and the sensing/Iocating
field, in order to provide context for the committee s deliberations. This interim report does not attempt
to summarize in detail these classified presentations on intelligence community programs ant! activities.
In general terms, the energy/power presentation focused on ITIC s view of opportunities for
nanotechnology to improve the performance of rechargeable batteries.
The external ciata-gathering portion of the workshop was organizer! in five topic areas, with two
or three speakers addressing each topic:
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Overview of power technologies
Nanoscale properties of energy storage materials
Device experience
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Summary of the Power Systems Workshop
4. Manufacturing and material handling considerations
5. Natural power
Following the presentations for each topic, there was a brief pane} discussion involving all of the
presenters for that topic. The workshop summary below follows this same organizational scheme: for
each topic area, the main points of each speaker's presentation are highlighted, followed by a
recapitulation of the general discussion.
At the end of the workshop, Debra Rolison, a committee member from the Naval Research
Laboratory, presenter} the main results of a November 2002 National Science Foundation (NSF)
workshop entitled "Approaches to Combat Terrorism: Opportunities for Basic Research in Energy/Power
Sources," which featured a subgroup focusing on opportunities for basic research in energy and power
sources. A brief summary of her presentation is also inclucled here. Appendix B lists the workshop
attendees, and a short biography for each speaker is given in Appendix C.
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