This report contains the proceedings of the Advanced Concepts and Technology II (ACT II) Pre-Proposal Conference for Fiscal Year 1998. The purpose of this conference is threefold. First, to present "technology demonstration interests" of the Battle Labs to industry and facilitate discussion topics; second, to allow industry to comment on the Draft Broad Agency Announcement (BAA); and third, to provide industry an opportunity to question the ACT II Program and procedures. These objectives are aimed at helping industry understand and respond to Army war-fighting capability requirements and for improving the ACT II Program. This program represents the single best means for industry to demonstrate mature or nearing maturity technologies to the Battle Labs. Nowhere else in the Army's modernization efforts can industry's independent research and development efforts, combined with the streamlined acquisition approach, provide immediate technology superiority for the Army of the 21st century.

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