Fall 2004, Vol. 1, Issue 2

Future technologies conference a 'big hit'

Y‑12's Applied Technologies manager Kevin Finney, who helped plan the initial NNSA Future Technologies Conference, held in Washington, D.C., last May, will chair the planning committee for the 2005 event. Y‑12 will organize the poster sessions.

"The conference was a big hit and a significant accomplishment for NNSA," said Finney, who, along with Mike Monnett (recently named manager of Y‑12 Public Affairs and Communications), organized the poster sessions. Sixteen of the 67 posters displayed were from Y‑12. The posters featured partnering and technology transfer initiatives aimed at meeting future weapons complex needs.

The 250 attendees represented site offices, contractors, federal agencies, the United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment, universities and industry. Thirty were Y‑12 employees, 20 of whom were presenters, session chairs and coordinators.

Besides panel sessions and lunch speakers, 76 technical presentations were wedged into just over two days. Y‑12's topics ranged from noncontact dimensional inspection to wireless communication challenges and improvements in gas sampling and analysis.

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