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DIRECTED ENERGY
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
About DEPS
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DEPS Mission: The Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) was founded
in 1999 to foster research and development of Directed Energy (DE) technology for national defense and civil applications
through professional communication and education. We intend to be recognized as the premier organization for
exchanging information about and advocating research, development and application of Directed Energy.
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Encourage national interest in DE |
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Foster communication within the DE community |
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Enhance DE education |
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Recognize outstanding DE contributions |
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Publish and archive DE achievements |
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Sponsoring
- DE Symposia, Conferences and Workshops
- DE Short Courses |
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Recognizing
- Excellent DE papers
- Contributions of DEPS Fellows |
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Publishing
- Journal of Directed Energy
- DE Symposium, Conference and Workshop Proceedings |
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DEPS Composition and Operations
DEPS is a non-profit corporation. Both individuals and organizations can join
with DEPS in pursuit of our vision. Individuals join DEPS as
members while organizations join as
sponsors. DEPS operations are overseen by
the Board of Directors, who are supported by the Board of Scientific and Engineering
Advisors. A small permanent DEPS staff coordinates DEPS activites from the
headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The current DEPS Team
is shown here. Our informational brochure, available here
in PDF format (963K), provides additional details about DEPS, as do the
paragraphs below.
DEPS Members
DEPS serves the DE Community through the volunteer
efforts of its more than 1,600 members. They
represent a wide cross section of the DE community. As shown on the chart, about half are
associated with industrial organizations. Of the third within the U.S. Department of Defense
sector, all Services are well represented.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors manages the Directed Energy Professional
Society non-profit corporation. The Board consists of nine Directors, three of which are elected
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| DEPS Directors for 2008
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each year for three-year terms. The Board's non-voting membership also includes appointed
Service Liaison members and the DEPS Executive Director.
The DEPS Directors for 2008 are shown on the left. Seated from left
are Edward Duff and William Baker (President). Standing from left are J. Thomas Schriempf,
Thomas Meyer, Donald Lamberson, Rett Benedict (Treasurer), and Edward Pogue (Vice-President).
Missing are Dennis Boesen (Secretary), Louis Marquet, John Wachs, and David Kiel (Navy Liaison member).
Board of Scientific and Engineering Advisors
The DEPS Board of Scientific and
Engineering Advisors (BSEA) is a small group of senior, highly respected individuals from
within the DE community. Appointed by the DEPS Board of Directors from the
pool of DEPS Fellows, the BSEA annually assists the DEPS Board in various ways, such
as by evaluating graduate scholarship applicants and
by recommending candidates for the rank of DEPS Fellow.
Additionally, from time to time, they may be asked by the Board to
recommend a technically sound position for the Board and DEPS to adopt concerning current
technical, management or political issues of import to the DE community. The term of a BSEA
member is three years.
DEPS Governance
The Directed Energy Professional Society is incorporated as a nonprofit
corporation in New Mexico, organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes
within the meaning of Sections 170(c)(2)(B ), 501(c)(3), 2055(a)(2), and 2522(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 as amended. DEPS operations and activities are also governed by its Bylaws.
The Society Annual Report for 2007 is available here in PowerPoint. Prior annual
reports for 2006, 2005 and 2004 are also available.
DEPS Copyright Policies
DEPS copyrights its publications, including its web site. For those authors
and presenters whose works are included in event proceedings or in the Journal of Directed Energy, the
copyright serves to protect their works from plagiarism and unauthorized use. DEPS policies regarding
re-use by the authors and their employers are outlined below.
Returned Rights
In return for the copyrights, DEPS hereby grants the authors and the employers for whom the work was
performed royalty-free permission to:
- retain all property rights other than copyright, such as patent rights,
- reuse all or portions of the above material in other works,
- reproduce or have reproduced the above material for the authors' personal use or for company use provided
that (a) the source and DEPS copyright are indicated, (b) the use of the copies does not imply DEPS endorsement
and (c) the copies, per se, are not offered for sale,
- make limited distribution of all or parts of the material prior to publication, and
- in the case of work performed under U.S. government contract, DEPS grants the U.S. government royalty-free
permission to reproduce the above material, for government purposes.
DEPS Obligations
DEPS will make all reasonable efforts to act in the interests of the authors and employers as well as its
own interests. In particular, DEPS will require that:
- the consent of the primary author will be sought as a condition in granting republication
permission to others, and
- the consent of the employer will be sought as a condition in granting permission for others
to use any part or all of the material for promotion or marketing purposes.
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