Denmark and the Netherlands

Chuck recently made two trips on business to the continent. The first was from 24 to 26 October to a research institute in Denmark, in a suburb of Copenhagen. This came about as a result of an invitation by a member of the institute who had attended an earlier workshop in which Chuck participated in Genoa. Also along on the visit were one of the program managers from the Office of Naval Research and a professor-researcher from the Univesity of Iowa.

The second trip was a few days later, from 31 October to 3 November to the Netherlands. This one consisted of 3 one-day visits. The first was to a research organization that specializes in the "human factors" of defense systems; how the machine-person interface can be made better and how the system can be designed to minimize demands, and the resulting stress, on people. The second day was devoted to a seminar on high speed patrol vessels. A visit to a Dutch shipyard that specializes in ships for the Dutch Navy rounded out this visit.