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  SUBJ: The Two FY 1992 R&D Funded PR's
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  1. (SINF) Your 9 march 92 Higgins note on above subject requests
  a brief explanation of the difference between the two purchase
  requests (330/025Z/92 and 330/026Z/92):
       - One package (025Z) is a modification to the existing
  contract (MDA-91-C-0037). Primarily, it permits improved
  statistical analysis techniques to be applied to evaluate the
  data on brain wave magnetoencephalograph (MEG) measurements
  collected during the effort initiated in FY 91. It also permits
  for completing methodologies that help correlate
  electroencephalograph (EEG) measurements into MEG data. Such
  conversion facilitates future brain wave research, make it easier
  for other non-MEG laboratories to be involved, and facilitates
  future personnel screening efforts. Other items called for in
  025Z are extensions of the basic contract in that additional
  people will be involved for base-line measurements to improve
  overall statistical strength of the initial findings. Work in
  energetics will also be completed for which experimental
  protocols were developed in the FY 91 effort. The activities
  identified in 025Z are therefore natural extensions that were
  anticipated at the time of the original contract in the event FY
  92 funding would become available.
       - The other package (026Z) reflects significdnt increases in
  overall scope of the FY 91, and 025Z, effort. For the MEG
  effort, preliminary work initiated in FY 91 has, in fact, shown
  statistically significant results with a small select population
  group. New work is now needed that expands this initial effort-
  to further establish a wider scientific credibility for the MEG
  work and improves application potential. (NOTE: Scientific
  considerations require increased statistical confirmations for
  different parameters. This requires replication with independent
  facilities, increases in experimental trials, examination of
  different brain areas, use of improved MEG instrumentation, and
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    examination of physical variables not feasible in the initial
    work). Consequently, the 026Z package reflects a significant
    increase in activity from the very basic work initiated in FY 91.
    Therefore, these two PRIs will permit a smoother and more
    efficient transition from the basic FY 91 activity into the more
    demanding rigorous scientific work that is required for advancing
    phenomena understanding, establishing a wider scientific support
    base, and in moving into new application research areas.
         - Other items in 026Z reflect new work not covered in the
    initial FY 91 effort. For example; use of computer enhanced
    vertual reality techniques, examining effects of lowering
    subliminal threshold, examining new cognitive aspects, engaging
    in new applied research projects, and investigating effects of
    energetics on emerging advanced technological devices.
    2. (U) Please let us know if an additional co ents are
    required. Call at ssary.
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