Dear colleagues, It is time to start the process of proposal preparation for the FY06 fiscal year funding of University-based ILC Detector R&D grants. The guidelines for this year's process, instructions for project leaders, and other details are posted at http://physics.uoregon.edu/~lc/lcdrd Note that this process applies both to continuing grants funded last year by sub-contracts from Oregon for both DOE and NSF funded projects, as well as to new projects. Any new projects are welcome to be proposed, and will be considered for funding as described in the material on the web site given above. New projects, and status reports on continuing grants, are due on December 15, 2005. Refer to the web page for details. If you have any questions on this process, please send them to me. Sincerely, Jim Brau ---------------------- James E. Brau Physics Department and Center for High Energy Physics 1274 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1274 (541) 346-4766