[Infowarrior] - Incomprehensible Earmark from Hell

[Richard Forno]

This is too funny not to pass along....my first response was, "In  
English, please" and then quickly followed by a realization that these  
folks must be master players of bullsh--t bingo....I mean, there's  
simply no other explanation!
  Where's Dilbert when you need him?  :)    --rf


(source: Cryptome)

http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3796

Incomprehensible Earmark from Hell

June 13, 2008

American Competitiveness Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., is being  
awarded a $99,999,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract  
for the Benchmarking and Best Practices Center of Excellence.   The  
purpose of this effort is to identify, validate, benchmark, and  
facilitate the dissemination (sharing) of best-in-class practices,  
processes, methodologies, systems, and pre-competitiveness  
technologies. In doing so, enhance and promote communications,  
corporation, integration, and interdependency across the defense  
industry that will result in improvements in affordability and  
performance of defense platforms and weapon systems. Work will be  
performed in Philadelphia, Pa., and work is expected to be completed  
June 2013. Contract funds will not expire at end of current fiscal  
year: This contract was competitively procured under solicitation  
N00014-08-R-0001. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is the  
contracting activity (N00014-08-D-0758).