The highlights:
* The award is for $10 million
* WB-8.0 report to be delivered 30 March 2010
* WB-8.1 report to be delivered 30 March 2012The WB-8.1 effort is contingent on success with WB-8.0 experiments.
What does all this mean? It is possible that there has been much more progress than was expected.
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