Yah... I'd give blood to have a peek at the plan.
But what they need is somebody that's done that before. We've done some nifty stuff... but not that nifty. We can probably evaluate about 80% of the design, but its that last 20% that is really going to make the difference.
Somewhere out there... is the Lt Col, or the Sgt, or the Specialist that put together the massive fiber and multiplexer network for the gizmos in Qatar. That's the guy they need to find. That Command Center they set up was world class. Even cooler than what they do in movies. :-)
Good evening,.... I haven't been around today, pretty busy here.... have I missed anything?
And it probably wasn't even on the guy's job description. I've seen it in IBM, where the biggest genius is some ordinary Joe Programmer who had the time to figure everything out, and make things work properly, PLUS do stuff that was never even dreamed.
I had "insoluble" problems that had already been fixed internally in IBM, but the fixes could not be made public because it was outside of the chain of (marketing) command. In one case, IBM had been dinkin' around with a problem for three months ("send a dump and a trace"), with no results. I mentioned this to a buddy at IBM (outside the support area). He made a phone call, and got a name. That got him another name. On the third call, he was talking to the programmer who wrote the code.
The problem was resolved instantly when the guru told him, "have Marketing read their f*ckin' configuration manual". What IBM Marketing proposed (and the techs signed off on) could not possibly work with the hardware sold us. The IBM branch office had to eat three months of software rental (about $15K) for the time they wasted.
The new hadware was installed in a week, and the software worked perfectly the first time I fired it up.