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Continued domestic commercial interest in cleantech, environmental innovation, and energy efficiency rests on its linkage with the United States' ability to put to work the ongoing innovation in these fields so that their output is understood as "sustainable" by the Federal Government, notably the Department of Defense, and therefore as having more likely to have economic staying power. Sustainability for these purposes means serving national security goals: operating more cost-effectively and more self-sufficiently without dependence on either foreign or civilian institutions The principle applies at all levels of the military spectrum, from the: deployment at the base and fleet level to the creation of small scale but rapidly deployable capabilities at the tactical level. Each sustainability objective requires not only a pipeline of technology, but also a carefully tuned intake procurement mechanism.

There has always been "translation" of technologies from military to civilian purposes. But these days it is of greater interest than ever to private sponsors of renewable energy and environmentally beneficial technologies, because available civilian agency Federal support for technology development seems likely to decline, and ongoing venture capital and private equity investment may well involve the calculation as to the extent that governmental funding will absorb some of the early stage developmental risk and thereby help companies across the "Valley of Death" that surrounds many as not yet fully commercialized companies.

The changing equation as to the sources of cleantech funding, will have varying effects as well on each type of renewable and cleantech resource--influenced both by the current stage of its technology development ; the nature of the applicable DoD procurement and funding policies, and the extent to which technology can translate from the military into the civilian application field.

This program will provide clean tech investors and sponsors of "green" companies and projects with (1) the perspectives necessary to successfully compete in the "sustainable" market and (2) a granular perspective of what will be necessary to compete in the core areas of innovative fuels, facilities, and high tech innovation respectively. The analysis will be presented by noted experts viewing these issues from different vantage points but equally keen professional intensity: high level civilian government management; high level DoD management; high tech development facilitation, and project finance law and execution.

Attendees at this program will come away with new insights on cleantech product and project development in the dawning new age of "sustainability" metrics and "translation" dynamics. More specifically, they will gain some insight into the future prospects for different renewable and cleantech developments in several technology categories.'