This is an announcement for the paper "The Kadison-Singer problem in mathematics and engineering" by Peter G. Casazza, Matt Fickus, Janet C. Tremain, and Eric Weber. Abstract: We will show that the famous, intractible 1959 Kadison-Singer problem in $C^{*}$-algebras is equivalent to fundamental unsolved problems in a dozen areas of research in pure mathematics, applied mathematics and Engineering. This gives all these areas common ground on which to interact as well as explaining why each of these areas has volumes of literature on their respective problems without a satisfactory resolution. In each of these areas we will reduce the problem to the minimum which needs to be proved to solve their version of Kadison-Singer. In some areas we will prove what we believe will be the strongest results ever available in the case that Kadison-Singer fails. Finally, we will give some directions for constructing a counter-example to Kadison-Singer. Archive classification: Functional Analysis Mathematics Subject Classification: 42C15; 46B03; 46C05; 47A05; 46L05; 46L10 The source file(s), KSSubmit.tex: 163819 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0510024.gz with size 46kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 199kb. Submitted from: pete@math.missouri.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.FA/0510024 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.FA/0510024 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0510024 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0510024 to: math@arXiv.org.