From an Actual E-mail I Received Today.

"We are participating in a US Army TATRC and NIST-Threat and Situational Assessment development around Regional Capacity to sense and respond to pandemic flu and similar events. The NIST project will include an effort to add a Bayesian BN onto the Semantic Web stack related to machine learning. Several of our group are participating in OASIS-open.org standards such as EDXL and HAVE as well as OMG efforts in BPM and MDA- RuleML.

"So an obvious question is: can your reports be presented in XML and XSD formats, and are you using OWL-DL now or will you be in the near future?"

A bag of marshmallows to the first person who can tell me what the hell this guy is talking about.* Time is of the essence.

I swear, there must be a government department that does nothing but come up with acronyms for the military and technology. They're probably called the EACD: Excessive Acronym Creation Department. Or maybe the DCTLAFLAOWMLIC: Department for the Creation of Three-Letter Acronyms, Four-Letter Acornyms, and Other Ways of Making Language an Impediment to Communication.

*You must explain what all the acronyms mean to qualify for the marshmallows.