Run by Dick O'Neill, funded by Linton Wells and the DoD — one of the rooms where Hare's two worlds were the same world
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The Highlands Forum was a regular invitation-only meeting run by Dick O'Neill and funded by Linton Wells and the Department of Defense, mixing technologists and complex-adaptive-systems people with the defense and intelligence communities. For Jonathan Hare it was one of the rooms where the Santa Fe thread and the national-security thread were visibly the same thread — the record notes it alongside RAND, MITRE, Carahsoft and the federal practices of the major integrators as the DC ecosystem he worked through the Consilient years.
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The convenor of the invitation-only room mixing complexity science with defense and intelligence
Open →funded by, at DoDThe Pentagon patron of the room where complexity met defense
Open →shared a community withThe coffee break room
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