John H. O'Hara requested from Vince Lodato a copy of the BBE business plan and wanted it sent to his home instead of NSA for expedience. So I complied and sent this letter along with the business plan.
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Dr. John H. O'Hara
3038 Traymore Lane
Bowie Maryland 20715 Sept 23,1997
Dear Dr. O'Hara,
Thank you for returning the call today. Enclosed you will find a copy of "Not recent business plan for BBE. However the technology, i.e. the X-ray lithography tool has not changes. The purpose of our communication with your agency is that we share a mutual interest in seeing this technology come to reality, and within the confines of the USA. The Bizzy Bee Equipment (BBE) Company is an American company whose roots are within the USA with no multinational interests.
Assuming that your agency has interest in seeing this work accomplished, and assuming your agency is interested in seeing BBE succeed. Your agency can help BBE achieve their goal by endorsing our program, i.e., you see it has technical merit and believe it should be funded. The funds do not necessarily have to come from the U.S. Government but can be generated in the free market economy. The Bizzy Bee Equipment company is making the following claim.
"BBE can make a point source x-ray lithography tool that can process chips with design rules from 0.25 to0.10 microns with a throughput time of 40 wafers per hour for an eight inch wafer, and for a ten inch wafer, 20 wafers per hour with ninety percent uptime. The cost for this system is approximately $20M.
Assuming that BBE can make this tool and deliver it within a 30 month time period, would the U.S. government be interested in purchasing it? (Answering yes would make no commitment on the Government's part.) This would not be a best effort contract, but very simply, if we (BBE) can not produce for you (the Government) this tool which will be delivered on time, within cost and to the agreed specification, then the Government does not have to pay; but however if we (BBE) succeed then you would at least buy one tool.
This area is plagued with many implications and after working for over seven years we realize that the help of the U.S. government is the only way America can stay on the leading edge in the manufacture for high density electronic chips.
The politics and power of the multinationals, and simply their greed, and lack of national interest is hurting the success of this technology. The evidence is in the following facts: The Hampshire failure coupled with Dr. Moshe Lubin's untimely suicide. Today in our society we do not hold a gun to another's head, but rather their wallet. The IBM influence in N.Y. state is stopping BBE from entering this field. First by excluding us from bidding on U.S. Government contracts. This was several years ago. Recently, stopping BBE from purchasing or having an option to purchase the remainder of Hampshire, i.e. their patent portfolio, which is in the possession of New York state. The bribe offered personally to me to stop pursuing the Hampshire documents. This was $1.5M consulting fee. The recent offer of a job through a third party.
We at BBE are not unreasonable, but willing to work as a team member to bring this technology to the market place and helping in the creation of jobs for Americans. This technology has personally tested me in fire. Nevertheless, I am committed to see BBE grow into a fine American company.
In closing I would hope that after reading this letter and the early draft version of our business plan, your agency can help bring this needed technology to reality.
Thank you in advance for your time and actions.
Sincerely,
Vincent A. LoDato Ph.D.
President of BBE
Enclosed Business plan
From this chart (old one) the reader can see that John O'Hara was deputy chief scientist of NSA