Thursday,
August 26, 2004
National Project
BCNGroup relationship to the think tanks and consulting industry
Hugh Montgomery
The Potomac Institute
CC BCNGroup Board and the Congress
CC Institute for Defense Analysis
The BCNGroup contacts with the Potomac Institute have been the same as the contacts we have developed with other think tanks.
Our objective is to see if anyone is home, or to gather additional evidence that these think tanks, including the Potomac Institute, are involved in a common process of ignoring reasonable presentations about the nature of our intelligence communities’ failures.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/conjecture/home.htm
Is there a need to think out side the group of DC area think tanks? Our attempts at communication with the think tanks are resulting in evidence that there is this need. We are calling on members of the Congress to make an inquiry.
Hugh, you and I have talked, both by email and by phone, about the National Project
http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/fortyseven.htm
in the past. Such a project should start with a conference of scholars in a format I suggested to Dr. David Alberts at OSD over a year ago.
As I reflect on our phone calls, I know that you are aware from your own experiences that there is something deeply and profoundly wrong with the classical information technology paradigm
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/kmbook/Chapter2.htm
and the business processes that are involved in selling the lucrative IT systems.
Why has there not been anything that the business consulting and thank tank community has done about this?
I have received a small investment of $3,000 from a venture capital group that is making an evaluation of the Ontologystream capitalization plan. So there is some new hopes that the work done and the work envisioned can be addressed in a scholarly and straightforward fashion.
I plan a series of seminars at George Mason University on the Orb notation and the Readware substructural (letter) semantics. I hope that you will join this seminar or send someone so that the technical issues can be discussed, even as the compensation issues are addressed in a proper and full fashion.
This note to you and any responses are public and part of the public domain.
Dr. Paul Prueitt
703-981-2676