Thursday, October 28, 2004
ARDA rejects the proposed Anticipatory Technology
Challenge Problem
White Paper on Incident Information Orb
Architecture (IIOA) à
Adi Structural Ontology Part I à
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