Updated August 16
During the summer months the SMART organization’s corporate leadership will continue to work towards collaboration with the Congressional Caucus, Federal Executive Branch (DC leaders) and States’ Executive & Legislative Branches. One major action is to expand awareness and active collaboration down to the major city and county levels. Various working meetings are scheduled and have taken place in DC and our State Capitols.
We continue to work on the SMART legislation with the new State Speakers Committee and Caucus co-leaders for the DE, MD & PA ratifying bills (NJ has passed) and federal enabling bills.
Another major activity is expanding our SMART grass-roots tech community membership as we close in on the above legislative stand up of the nation’s first interstate S&T Authority.
On events, we had a busy July schedule and are working towards our typically busy fall. Monitor our home page “Upcoming Events” for a summary and the “Events” menu tab for full details. Look for, among others:
- Sept start of monthly meetings to support 6th Annual TechTrends 09 in Phila
- Sept 9th; supporting the Phila 100 Happy Hour
- Sept 26th; 2nd NJ Assemblyman Chivukula Tech Fair
- Sept/Oct; 2nd Burlington County (NJ)
- Oct; 3rd Capitol Hill Forum
- Oct 31st; 6th SMART PROC, Frederick MD, in conjunction with Congressman Bartlett
- Nov 17th (pending confirmation); SE PA Intern Fair at Neumann College
- Nov/Dec; 3rd HLS Forum, Baltimore or Annapolis TBD
- Nov/Dec; 2nd State Speakers Committee meeting (possibly joint meeting w/ the 8th Lt Gov & Sec of Comm.);
-- MD or DE will host
- Nov/Dec; 4th Modeling & Simulations Tech Fair, Aberdeen, MD
Besides events, we continue to work towards new projects via our Tech Group chairs. We are expecting FY 09 funding for four PA projects (PA DCED funded) and have four Congressional FY 09 projects pending.
Our Women's Program is working on a website that will allow networking and they are also planning their 2nd annual convention for the winter/spring 09.
For any details on the above or any SMART topic or S&T issue, please contact Bob Carullo at 609-304-2904.
Please enjoy a safe summer.