The Emerging Technology Task Team members have endorsed the following Mission Statement:

"While performing the study of Best Practices in preventing damage to underground facilities, the Emerging Technologies Task Team will consider and evaluate technologies used in current practices from all aspects of the excavation process: design, one-call, location and marking, excavation, mapping, compliance, and reporting and evaluation. We will evaluate how the application of existing, promising, or breakthrough technologies might affect and improve upon current practices. We will use our imaginations and venture outside of our current realms to develop ideas for potential, new technologies that will assist in a global plan to construct and maintain uninterrupted underground facility services with absolute safety in our excavation working environment. Only after developing an understanding of what a totally uninterrupted facility system incorporates technologically, can we define “perfection” in the workplace, enabling the industry to gauge its progress toward achieving it." -- “With imagination as our inspiration, an absolute safe excavation working environment as our motivation, total availability of facility services will be our achievement.”