The Committee expressed its appreciation to the Government of Italy, which, through the Politecnico di Torino and the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella and with the collaboration of the Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris, had offered five 12 month fellowships in 2004 for postgraduate studies in GNSS and related applications at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy.

(c) The Spaceguard Integrated System for Potentially Hazardous Objects Survey (SISYPHOS) was proposed by the Alenia Spazio company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino. A space based observatory would detect and carry out remote sensing and the physical characterization of NEOs their size, composition, surface roughness, and so forth