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To:   JMC
CC:   rpg-q 

I spoke to Scherlis last night. He was distressed by the situation
but thought it could be fixed quickly if we act quickly.

First, we should call Paul Chock and find out whether he can
begin to act before any paperwork arrives. We should get him up to
date on the rest of our actions to straighten this out.

Second, we should call Tice DeYoung at SPAWAR, who is Pucci's boss, and
explain what happened. We should say that because of personnel shuffling
at Lucid we underran by some $250k and that we want a no-cost,
no-additional-task extension to complete the work, using that money. His
number is (202)692-3966. Also ask him whether he can begin to act before
he gets any paperwork from Stanford, Lucid, or DARPA.  We should explain
we've talked to Scherlis. If he is not at that number, we should ask if he
is at DARPA and then to call Scherlis' number at DARPA and find DeYoung
there.

If DeYoung is not available, we should try John Pucci at (202)692-9207.

Third, to get the second 18 months, we should send a 1-page summary of
what we've done and what we want to do. This should be in bulletized
format. Of importance to DARPA is the availability of Qlisp to other
groups and the potential for Qlisp to become a resource to the community.
Scherlis has pushed Encore to deal with Lucid and Qlisp, and that
relationship has now started, so we can use that. Apparently Encore
has good currency these days at DARPA.

That summary should be netmailed to Squires and cc'ed to Scherlis.
Scherlis was concerned that the tasking contract at Stanford might
not provide for a second 18 months, but I'm pretty sure we set it
up that way. He said if it is, then another 18 months is a good
bet, and they can get it done in about 1 month.

On a related topic, he is concerned that CSD is dropping the ball with
DARPA funding. He is concerned that the faculty cannot work together to
propose coherently and that the tasking contract is not being utilized
effectively. Though he didn't say it, I got the impression that funding
from DARPA to CSD could be in short supply unless this situation is not
fixed. Possibly I should meet with Nils to discuss this.

			-rpg-