By all means, while browsing the link in the above post, check out some of the projects, assuming you can plow through the jargon (Bureaucrat Babble?) I've looked at some of these, tried to figure out what the hell they're talking about, and I have more than a passing suspicion that some of the descriptions don't actually say anything at all.

FY02/ FY03: Develop tools for cognitive amplification by extending the ability of software to model current states, estimate plausible futures, support formal risk analysis, and provide for automated option planning. Supporting technology includes the use of intelligent agents, cognitive machine intelligence, associative memory, neural networks, pattern matching, Bayesian inference networks, and biologically inspired algorithms.



FY02/ FY03: Develop tools for cross-agency collaboration designed to operate across existing hierarchical organizations while maintaining control and accountability. Areas under consideration will include: KM; corporate memory; context-driven, declarative-policy enforcement; self-aware data; business rules; self-governance; and automated planning.



Uh, could you run that past me a little slower? Maybe Sunblok is writing their stuff...