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Thursday, October 28, 2004

 

The BCNGroup Beadgames

 

ARDA rejects the proposed Anticipatory Technology Challenge Problem

 

Center of Excellence Proposal

Challenge Problem

National Project

 

White Paper on Incident Information Orb Architecture (IIOA) à

Adi Structural Ontology Part I  à

 

We will be able to see, for the first time, the paths of discourse used to recruit new members to those forms of radical Islam that have declared a holy war on the Western way of life. 

 

BCNGroup Founding Committee

October 27, 2004

 

ARDA rejection notice (Friday, October 29, 2004)

 

 

 

Dr. Mark Maybury              

Executive Director, NRRC                          

The MITRE Corporation

 

Dr. Rich Quadrel

Director, NWRRC

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

 

Dr. John Meadors

Director, SERRC

GTRI

 

Tim Persons

Technical Director, ARDA

 

Karl Roenigk

Program Manager, ARDA

 

 

My group would like to know titles of the 13 different submissions for 2005 Challenge Problems that were selected for presentations at the Orals.  These titles would give us an indication of the focus that ARDA had made.

 

Our purpose is not to be in conflict with ARDA over your not being interested in the Anticipatory Technology Challenge problem, but to place into context our forwarding of information regarding what we predicted would be a narrow orientation by ARDA.  Specifically, the BCNGroup will be taking this issue to members of the Congress.

 

It is not possible for my group to accept that the challenge problem we presented to you is

 

1) not of a highest priority for the nation

2) addresses types of problems that lie outside of the traditional information technology community

3) integrates available but out of the box type solutions

 

Our work deserves at least a single workshop.

 

We are scientists, not program managers or business people.  A great deal of un-compensated effort has gone into our proposal to you and in a number of similar proposals to DARPA, NIMA, and NIST.  The NIMA (2002) proposal was deemed fundable but not funded.  Our work remains almost entirely unique and this uniqueness stems from an underlying physical theory of stratification reflected in the suggestion that OWL and Cyc Corp type ontology is far from an optimal means to represent information to human communities. 

 

A pattern of dismissal and bias does appear to permeate the DoD’s procurement of R&D and deployable IT systems.   An investigation seems appropriate.

 

We simply cannot accept there being no opportunity to discuss the technologies and the capabilities that the BCNGroup’s core team already has available to demonstrate.

 

What we have to go on is inconsistent with an informed opinion about what might be done to help bring an understanding of the terrorism that is embedded in our various communities worldwide.

 

It is thus necessary to use the rejection of the anticipatory technology challenge problem is a proof of principle that government funding agencies are not fully engaged in the core issues related to the war.

 

 

Dr. Paul Prueitt

Director BCNGroup