From: Michael Ravnitzky Subject: PUB: List of Military Virtual Reality Tech Repts Available Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:27:31 -0600 Message-ID: <325B37C3.2CD4@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Netcom The Department of Defense and its contractors have conducted an enormous amount of research on Virtual Reality and related topics. Do you want to get a list of rare or hard to find reports on VR? I have been studying the release and declassification of Defense Department technical reports. It turns out that there are hundreds of thousands of technical reports in almost every subject area that are not classified, but are still NOT accessible to civilian researchers. However, any person can get a complete list of these otherwise unavailable tech reports for any specific scientific or technical subject area you want---physical sciences, engineering, biological sciences, and social sciences. Simply send a letter of request to Kelly D. Akers, Freedom of Information Act Manager, Defense Technical Information Center, Attn: DTIC-RSM, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Suite 0944, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6128. You should not need to call, but just in case, her phone number is 703-767-9194. In the letter, explain that you would like a complete computer-generated technical report bibliography for reports associated with the subjects and keywords XXXXXXX or YYYYYYY or ZZZZZZZ. Select your keywords carefully, no more than one dozen per request. Use the word OR between keywords. Indicate whether you are a for-profit company, or a noncommercial requester. Fees are not likely to be more than a couple of dollars, butindicate in the letter that you will be willing to pay fees up to $20 without additional permission. This last sentence is important; DTIC will not process your request without that statement. Once you get the list of reports, you can select the ones of greatest interest or value and ask for those specific reports with another letter. Mike Ravnitzky MikeRav@ix.netcom.com