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Subject: ARPA math education initiative

I have heard that DoD is planning a $37M DoD Education and Training
project for FY94-95.  Of these total funds, $20M is going to be
applied to technology to improve DoD Dependent Schools and $17M is
Director's funds for science, math, and education.  The PM for this
project is Dr. Kirstie Bellman (ARPA/SISTO).  Note: this is money
starting FY94.

Two technical directions of this project are: information
infrastructure (software architectures etc.) and scenario generation
(curriculum development support, etc).  Also of interest is applying
formal languages to the problem of scenario generation for simulations
(a key to authoring tools for all sorts of education packages in
virtual reality and learning by experience simulations).

That's all I have heard.

Bob