CiDRA’s Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. Alan D. Kersey, has been invited to speak at the SPIE sponsored House of Representatives Research & Development Caucus, to be held on April 17, 2012. The event will focus on Next Generation Job Creation and the Sensing Technologies for Manufacturing, Medicine and Environmental Safety. Dr. Kersey will present and describe the model CiDRA uses to effectively take early stage R&D into end‐user applications - generally in high value industrial sensing for natural resources processing.