House R&D Caucus hears about light-based innovation in SPIE-sponsored briefing

SPIE sponsored an R&D Caucus event in DC last week and according to SPIE it went well; the program was excellent. The ppts and audio have been posted in the SPIE newsroom at http://spie.org/x38175.xml. The FPC and UCF federal relations staff were among those encouraging this interaction to increase the visibility of how important photonics is to advances in biotech, energy, and other high-priority areas.