The Project Integration Office (PIO) was established to assist the US DOE with the direction and coordination of its multiple electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle research programs in order to get the maximum payoff from these research efforts. In addition, the PIO performs objective independent technical and economic studies, analyses and modeling, and maintains a technical information liaison service to facilitate information exchange between the program participants and industry. Progress in each of these activities is reported. (LCL)

New low-energy x-ray diagnostic techniques are used to explore energy-transport processes in laser heated plasmas. Streak cameras are used to provide 15-psec time-resolution measurements of subkeV x-ray emission. A very thin (50 ..mu..g/cm/sup 2/) carbon substrate provides a low-energy x-ray transparent window to the transmission photocathode of this soft x-ray streak camera. Active differential vacuum pumping of the instrument is required. The use of high-sensitivity, low secondary-electron energy-spread CsI photocathodes in x-ray streak cameras is also described. Significant increases in sensitivity with only a small and intermittant decrease in dynamic range were observed. These coherent, complementary advances in subkeV, time-resolved x-ray diagnostic capability are applied to energy-transport investigations of 1.06-..mu..m laser plasmas. Both solid disk targets of a variety of Z's as well as Be-on-Al layered-disk targets were irradiated with 700-psec laser pulses of selected intensity between 3 x 10/sup 14/ W/cm/sup 2/ and 1 x 10/sup 15/ W/cm/sup 2/.

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The (Putnam City North High School Jazz Band) took to the stage Tuesday at the Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thetas Mary Alice Brumley, Katherine Harrell, Joannie Bole and Julia Bole exchange stories at the recent Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae founders Day luncheon in Alberta's tea Room."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "F. G. "Buck" Buchanan-Republican Candidate for Oklahoma County Dist. 1 Commissioner."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "F. G. "Buck" Buchanan-County Commissioner."

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

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B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.