Dear Presentor/Author,

Congratulations on having your paper accepted for presentation at the 1998 Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Devices and Technologies conference. As you know, acceptance of a paper for presentation makes it a part of the 1998 issue of the Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Devices and Technologies Proceedings.

Please take a few moments now to read the instructions. We believe they will help minimize problems later in this process and contribute to the technical quality of your presentation and the publication. Please read the Author Instructions carefully and make every effort to implement these instructions. If you have any questions about these instructions, please do not hesitate to call or email me.

Richard B. Katz of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be the Technical Editor and Martha O’Bryan of Jackson and Tull/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be the Production Editor for the 1998 Proceedings. Up to date information on further instructions, guidelines for manuscript preparation, schedule deadlines, required modifications or explanations will be posed to the web site listed below. Downloadable pre-formatted documents, usable as a template will also be posted.

The URL address is: http://rk.gsfc.nasa.gov/

We look forward to working with each of you this year in creating effective presentations and a quality publication within the tight publication deadline.