I wonder if the sponsorship relates to nuclear waste remediation ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Threat_Reduction_Agency . shades of the 'Cincinnati group' ? From: Horace Heffner Johnson, R. and M.E. Melich. Weight of Evidence for the Fleischmann-Pons Effect. in ICCF-14 International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2008. Washington, DC. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/JohnsonRweightofev.pdf Interesting sponsor. "The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for this work."

