Introduction:

The Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) Conference is a combination of the DDR&E sponsored Battlespace Atmospheric Conference (BAC) and Cloud Impacts on DoD Operations and Systems (CIDOS) Conference held separately in years previous to 1998.  The first and second BACIMO Conferences were hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory (at Hanscom Air Force Base, MA in December 1998) and the Army Research Laboratory Battlefield Environment Division (in Fort Collins, CO in April 2000).

BACIMO 2001  

BACIMO 2001 will again be hosted by the  Army Research Laboratory Battlefield Environment Division located at White Sands, NM and Adelphi, MD, and will be assisted by the DoD Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research (CG/AR) located at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University.  The conference will be held July 10-12, 2001 at the University Park Holiday Inn in Fort Collins, Colorado, approximately 50 miles north of Denver, CO (about 1.5 hours' drive from Denver International Airport).

BACIMO 2001 is being convened by the BACIMO 2001 Planning Committee at the request of the Assistant for Battlespace Environments Office of Defense Research and Engineering, Pentagon, Washington, DC.  The conference objective is to enhance cooperation and coordination in all aspects of atmospheric, weather and cloud impacts on military operations among US military services, the civilian community, and other nations.  BACIMO will focus on future missions and systems, and the continuing emphasis on joint operations, not only among the different branches of the military services but also with allies, such as NATO countries.  BACIMO 2001 will cover modeling, simulation, measurement, and prediction of atmospheric and cloud impacts on military EM/EO/acoustic systems and operations. We are also soliciting contributions illustrating  "lessons learned" from the operations support perspective.

The conference is UNCLASSIFIED.  All DoD agencies and their contractors are welcome; attendance by foreign nationals is expected.  System designers, operational planners, and research scientists whose projects are related to or impacted by atmospheric and cloud effects will have an interest in both attending and presenting papers at BACIMO 2001.  We look forward to a successful conference made so by your active participation.

Call for Papers:

Tentatively, the following sessions are planned:

            Keynote

            Program Reviews

            Atmospheric Propagation

            Battlespace Sensing Techniques and Applications

            Clouds

            Decision Aids

            Lessons Learned (Operations Feedback)

            Meteorological Modeling and Data Assimilation

The conference format will include platform and poster presentations.  You will be asked to indicate your desired format.  However, because of time limitations, a majority of the presentations will need to be in poster format.  Poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present a 2-minute "platform commercial" for their posters.  The Technical Committee will designate the required number of requested platform presentations as poster presentations to meet the platform presentation time constraints of the Conference.

Abstracts:

The deadline for abstract submission is April 30, 2001, after which the Technical Committee will convene and select the papers and posters to be presented and the sessions that the papers will appear in. You will be notified by e-mail of the Committee’s decision on/or about May 10th.

Please submit an unclassified abstract of approximately 250 words via e-mail as an .html or .pdf document attachment to bacimo2001@cira.colostate.edu.  The abstract should be prepared according to the following format:

Title, in capital letters

Names of authors - indicate presenter with an asterisk (*)

Affiliation and address

Phone, fax and your e-mail address

Abstract (approximately 250 words, no equations or figures)

Government sponsor for non-government organizations if applicable

Your e-mail message should provide the additional following information:

Preference for platform or poster presentation

Audio/visual needs

Suggested session (from list above)

It is the responsibility of the authors to have their abstract cleared by their organization for unlimited public release prior to submitting them to ARL.  Abstracts selected for the Conference will be available at a later time for viewing on this web site.

Proceedings:

The plan for BACIMO 2001 is to remain as "paper free" as possible.  The conference proceedings will be posted at the web site and a CD of the proceedings will be available at the conference.  Authors will be required to submit their paper with evidence of clearance for public release by June 25, 2001.  Instructions for paper submission to allow for easy posting to the BACIMO website will be provided to you at the time that you are notified of the Technical Committee's decision concerning your abstract.

General Information:

Send electronic mail regarding BACIMO 2001 to Ms. Loretta Wilson at bacimo2001@cira.colostate.edu.  Please include "Wilson" in the subject line.  Ms. Wilson can also be reached at (970) 491-8423; fax (970) 491-8241.