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OTHER PRESENTATIONS IN THE SERIES
“ JOM-e: Issues and Opportunities in Homeland Security,” by Toni Marechaux “ Opportunities and Issues in Homeland Security: Opening Remarks,” by Toni Marechaux “ Fifty Years of Defending the Nation at Home and Abroad,” by A.D. Romig, Jr. “The Role of Universities in Homeland Defense,” by Todd Stewart and Jim Williams

EDITOR'S NOTE: During the 2002 TMS Fall Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, the symposium Opportunities and Issues in Homeland Security was cosponsored by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International. The speakers' slides from several of the presentations were collected and converted to into portable document format (PDF) files for viewing as this month's JOM-e.

Current plans and planning efforts associated with counterterrorism in the federal sector are reviewed with emphasis on the positive role that materials research and engineering can play. Generic challenges associated with inspection and detection of materials and devices and broad opportunities for materials research and engineering contributions are discussed. The need for systems and system engineering approaches to the problem and the challenges that this poses to the materials community are highlighted and general approaches suggested.

For more information, contact Lewis Sloter, U.S. Department of Defense, 300 Defense Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20301-3080; e-mail lewis.sloter@osd.mil