The document discusses a technology metals summit that will cover topics including rare earths, energy weapons, strategic defense initiative, electromagnetic rail guns, high powered microwaves, directed energy navy laser weapons, and how defense departments can ensure secure supply of rare earth and critical materials. It notes that future directed energy weapons and other advanced technologies will require significant amounts of power generation, electrical storage, electronics, magnets, optics, and other materials that rely on rare earth elements.

1. Technology Metals Summit
April 21 – 22, 2013
Byron W. King
Agora Financial, LLC
Editor, Energy & Scarcity Investor
Editor, Outstanding Investments
Editor, Military Technology Alert
www.agorafinancial.com

2. Rare Earths and…
– Energy Weapons –

3. Pres. Ronald Reagan…
Strategic Defense Initiative

4. Hey… SDI Works!

5. What Does SDI Tech
Mean for RE Miners?

6. First, Let’s Look Back at
500 Years of Gunpowder

7. Big Guns Make for
Complex Mechanical Engineering

8. Putting Ordnance
Downrange Requires…
Gunpowder

9. Gunpowder Is Dangerous

10. Get Rid of the Gunpowder
BAE Systems Rail Gun

11. Electromagnetic Rail Gun:
Velocity and Range

12. Rail Gun Projectiles

13. Now Try This: HPM
“High Powered Microwave”
aka… E-Bomb

14. High Powered Microwave
“E-Bomb”

15. Directed Energy:
Navy Laser Weapons
Counter Asymmetric Threats

16. Deployed Directed Energy

17. Dazzling Lasers

18. Change How We Build Ships
– “Expeditionary Systems” –

19. E-Weps
Change Everything…
• Intel & ROE
• Command & Control
• OTH Targeting
• Battle Management
• Damage Assessment
• Much More…

20. What Does This Star Trek
Tech Require?
• Power Generation &
Management
• Electrical Storage
• Electronics
• Magnets
• Optics
• Lots More…

21. How Can Defense
Departments & Ministries
Ensure Secure RE Supply?
Procurement Policy:
Require Contractors
to Specify SOURCE of
RE/Critical
Materials, Down to
Mine and Process-
Level.

22. Yes, There’s MORE!!!
But I Don’t Want to Have to Kill You.

23. LET’S MOVE ON…
To the Rest of Our Day!