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The MOOS-DAWG 2019 meeting is hosted by MIT and funding for the main event is derived solely from the attendee registration fees.
ONR has been sponsoring software and optimization algorithm development used in MOOS-IvP for roughly the last decade.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR):
MOOS at Oxford has been funded by the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, ONR-311, the European Commission under grant agreement number FP7-231888-EUROPA and the UK's EPSRC.
The 2019 Welcome BBQ will be held on the evening of August 6th at the MIT Sailing Pavilion. This event will be sponsored by BAE Systems.