Mr. Thompson leads the SAIC/ASC role in Information Architecture efforts on the behalf of customers in the Intelligence Community and supports the SAIC/ASC roles in Systems Architecture and Metrics & Evaluation efforts for that community. Currently, Mr. Thompson is leading an effort to adopt agile, test-first, continuous integration methodologies and tools pioneered in the open source community for clients in the Intelligence community. Mr. Thompson serves on the W3C RDF Data Access Working Group, was a founding member of the XML Topic Maps Authoring Group, and is the founding Director of the Cognitive Web, http://www.cognitiveweb.org, an open source project exploring architectural solutions to support collaborative, process-oriented decision-making and critical thinking. He has an background in decision support systems, cognitive psychology, neural networks, computational linguistics, non-monotonic pseudo-probabilistic logics, and software architecture.