Tom Wells

Wells earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1972 and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Maryland in 1978. His career experience includes owning a business to develop solutions to a small class of long-standing Air Force requirements. He also worked for 15 years at Georgia Tech in research and as the lead engineer at a succession of small microwave technology companies.[1]

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Campaign website

Wells' campaign website stated the following:

Act 1 : MEDICARE FOR ALL (M4A)

Tremendous savings.

Overall costs are reduced by $1 Trillion per year

A half million medical bankruptcies are reduced to 0

48,000 annual deaths by lack of access are reduced to 0

These are the costs of Corporate Welfare

Far better health outcomes.

Birth to Death Healthcare. No exclusions for Pre-Existing Conditions.

Covers Vision, Hearing, Dental, Mental Health, Prescription Drugs.

No Insurance premiums, deductibles, or co-pays.

Social Cost Taxes on Tobacco – Reduce Use, Save Lives

You need medical care? All your doctors are in-plan.

Implement in 1 year

Because Health Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

Detailed economic analyses has been published

Displaced Workers: Code Matchers

There are 3 million medical code matchers at insurance companies and medical facilities, mean salary $30,000/year, ergo $90 Billion. They will be paid full salary for 3 years re-training, e.g. in tuition free public universities/trade schools

ACT 2: Straight Arrow Public Funding of Elections

Every voter gets a $200 voucher account.

To be donated only to candidates bound to take nothing else

in their campaign, in their time in office.

These Straight Arrow Candidates will be so designated on the ballot

There will still be corporate funded candidates.

$120 Million of Voter Vouchers are in play in every Congressional District

Connecticut has for 20 years elected solid majorities in their state legislature with far more modest public funding

Why Public Funding?

It can be done Now. (Amending the Constitution takes longer.)

This legislation complies with Supreme Court decisions on Public Funding

Because it is Healthcare for Democracy.

These Acts are best done quickly, early in the term of the new Congress.

Two years out the full benefits of M4A will be evident throughout the population.

Your healthy voters will heartily donate their Voter Vouchers to re-elect you.

Following Nina Turner's Dictum “Soft on the People, Hard on the Issues.” We will Redeem our colleagues.

These 2 Acts Change the System, They constitute a – soft revolution --

Those things that could not be done, can now be done.

Climate Justice: The Green New Deal

Comprehensive Multi-Faceted Plan as proposed by Sen. Sanders

End fracking on Day 1 by withdrawing exceptions to Clean Air and Water Act negotiated by V.P. Cheney in 2003

Funded so as to build the Real Economy out of Depression into a Sustainable Future.

Amended to include a Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax

Initial Rate of $200 per tonne of CO2 equivalent, CO2e

All revenue returned in UBI format

Existing Free Trade Agreements include adjustments for differential CO2e tax rates. (The otherwise odious Free Trade Agreements do get this right)

Move to Regenerative, Sustainable, and Organic Agriculture - away from BigAg with its toxic pesticides, phosphate mining, and GMOs

Strong EPA regulations for waste / water.

Pump-Up the Working Economy

Jobs – Minimum Wage – Union Rights – Social Security

$18/hr. minimum wage. Do It Now! (3 month Price Re-set for Labor Fraction of Cost)

Fight for 15 started in 2012. That's $18 now.

For All workers

Peg Min wage to labor productivity index

Automation increases productivity. Wages must reflect this.

The American worker is your Customer

Wage Re-set: Opens all union contracts for re-negotiation

M4A means health insurance price inflation, benefit contraction is gone.

Contract labor rates defined as multiples of the Min wage to track automatic Min wage increases

Counter state “Right to Work” laws by negotiated Federal funding of union dues

Expand social security benefits to reflect Wage Re-set.

Funding: Remove social security contribution cap.

Treat capital gains as ordinary taxable income.

Paid Vacation – 2 weeks Min.

Paid family and sick leave – 12 weeks Min.

The Paper Economy

Restore Glass-Stegall Regulation of Banks / Wall Street.

Too big to fail equal too big to exist

Impose Transaction Tax on Stock Trades to Reduce 'House' Take

Impose Wealth Tax

Reverse Tax Cuts

USPS

Introduce Postal Banking

Repeal 75 year pension funding requirement

Recognize cost actors in uniform price mail delivery across America

Build out high-speed internet across America with USPS uniform pricing.

Remove the menace to society that Trump appointed to destroy the USPS

FURTHER ELECTION REFORM

Open Primaries with Ranked Choice Voting.

Require voting machines have open source software.

Universal and permanent Vote By Mail option

Automatic/Mandatory Voter Registration at Age 18

Precedent: Mandatory Selective Service Registration (for males)

JUDICIAL REFORM

De-militarize police force.

Professional salaries and training (e.g. 3 years) for police officers

End for-profit prison system.

Victimless crime equal civil infraction.

End capital punishment.

End cash bail system.

Convert prison system from punishment to rehabilitation.

End war on drugs – drug use is a mental health issue.

Legalize marijuana for recreational use, clear convictions,

Abolish “Stand your Ground” laws.

Federal investigation/prosecution of injuries/death by Law Enforcement Officers

The Senate Confirmation Process under Sen. McConnell makes a mockery of judicial impartiality or even competence. The only present legal recourse is judicial, and Senatorial, Impeachment. It is not rational to allow respect for the Judicial Branch to cloak the destruction of Constitutional checks and balances.

EDUCATION REFORM

Federal per student funding for Pre-K to 12

no Disadvantaged School Districts.

Dramatically reduce regressive property taxes

Tuition free public universities and trade schools.

GI Benefits used for living expenses

Professional salaries for all teachers.

No public funding of for-profit schools.

Cancel student debt.

Restructure student loans to 1960's format.

National Security: Update Threat Assessment

Climate Chaos produces ever more National Security breaches

This is the natural role of the National Guard

Abolish FEMA - Its contracting latitude fosters Disaster Capitalism

Novel Viruses

Coronavirus is the greatest National Security Breach in our History

Restore pandemic response team. Contain the threat offshore.

Secure Supply Chains, Logistics, and National Means of Production.

Ban military contractors in war zones.

A first step in Ending Endless Wars

Apply savings to salaries of enlistees – our soldiers are professionals

End international sanctions that punish populations.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are American controlled vehicles of unconventional warfare.

For example: Ukraine default on loans invoked 'modern agricultural techniques' clauses giving American GMO seeds and toxic pesticide companies forced entry into what had been a sustainable organic food powerhouse.

Re-define 'loans' to nation states as zero-interest co-investment contracts

Veterans

Fully fund VA – There are presently 49,000 unfunded staff positions

End veteran homelessness.

Preserve the VA as a separate full service medical facility dedicated to care of our veterans

Make less veterans: End wars of choice, Wars for Oil

SOCIAL JUSTICE

LGBTQ rights.

Religious freedom – ALL religions.

Respect separation of church and state.

Minority housing and business grants.

Path to citizenship

DACA / DREAMers / TPS protections.

Abolish DHS and its ICE and CBP units. These are products of the extremely problematic 2003 AUMF – the repeal of which is long overdue

Abolish immigrant detention for misdemeanor border crossing

Ankle tagging is cost effective. And (relatively) humane.

Codify Women’s Reproductive Rights

Center foreign policy on human rights.

Gun control: background checks + train, test, license, insure.[4]

—Tom Wells' campaign website (2024)[5]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I came of age in the 60's, the son of a conscientious surgeon. He served in Army Medical Corp before returning to the States To be Chief of Surgery at a VA Hospital. 10 years patching up soldiers crippled defeating European Fascism and Japan.

He set up private practice in a mid-Georgia mill town in '56 - right at the intersection of Civil Rights, Abortion Rights, and Medicare for All. Poor girls had botched abortions, he treated them at home. Sick people couldn't pay $3 for an office visit, the bill was filed. MLK spoke, we listened. He died at age 50.

And I took a different route. I finished a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Maryland. I had a family, 4 marvelous children - 10 grandchildren now, and a good career in microwave engineering.

But from 1980 I was aware that my children's - Our Children's - horizons were shrinking. I watched in despair as inequity and injustice flourished, as corruption became the norm - and the inevitability of Climate Collapse became ever more clear. But what could I do?

In 2015 Bernie showed me. I've been doing it ever since.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

This election pits democracy vs. Fascism. The bloody J6 coup festered 17 months before the democratic House began public hearings and is yet un punished. The Supreme is shredding the Constitution. Losing House or Senate threatens the end of meaningful elections.The people are woke to this peril. I've had thousands of local conversations in the last year; people understand in their gut that fascism respects no rightsWe are at a point of all or nothing. The government that hears the voices of children yet unborn - and invests in a WWII scope Fossil-Free Green New Deal - will address immediately Social, Racial, Economic, Educational, and Criminal Justice.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Reform of the Supreme Court is critical. They have this year shown arrogant disregard for Justice, for speech and privacy rights, even for life on Earth in arguing that the EPA has not the authority to regulate the deadly profits of those poisoning us. In these, and precedents legalizing corporate bribery, they have brought us fact-to-face with corporate Fascism - the merger of State and corporate power. Expanding the Court may slow the process, but firing the fascists is necessary to reverse the process. How? Art3 Sect1: "Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour". It required only 51 Senators to get the job. 51 can fire them. They work for us. We demand judges that know: People are people, corporations are not. In politics money is not speech, it is bribery. That love is love, and not for others to judge.

The Congress elected under such precedents will represent the people - and our children. A fossil-free Green New Deal, that works at scale, then is possible. A WWII level of investment; trillions of dollars per year invested in making and installing solar, wind, batteries; will bring the working class boom as followed WWII on a healthier planet.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

My father, Ghandi, Mandela, Lula, MLK

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Kennedy's Assassination. I was 12.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

At 16 I was lifeguarding at a pool. I lifeguarded and taught swimming lessons for 3 summers.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

That depends. Too often resumes are judged just by positions held. The only valid criteria is things accomplished. Arguably, in any rational system, these criteria would be correlated. But the grotesque level of corruption in American politics guarantees that the worst miscreants can advance most rapidly.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Restoring the Constitutional democracy that the Amended Constitution promises. Only then can we address the Climate Crisis at an effective scale. Should we not manage these things, 30 years from now we will know that other successes mattered little.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

My hope is that people will learn from present experience that politics controls the future your children will inhabit and that they will use their vote to remove those who ought to be removed. The introduction of big clean public funding would make this a realistic possibility.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Policymaking is necessary. And in a democracy it will always be accompanied by discourse and compromise. And discussion between intelligent well-informed representatives of the people yields compromises that are necessary and desirable. That is not the result in our present Congress.

The level of corruption, corporate money, in present American politics is unmatched in the world. When when donor-owned members negotiate, compromise comes to mean buying off corporate lobbyists with public money. Giving Billions of our tax dollars to corporations who trickle down millions to their Congressmembers. That is not compromise. That is racketeering.

Campaign website

Wells' campaign website stated the following:

Statement of Principles

The treatment of Socio-Economic Issues that follows is guided by the general principles of 'Fair Market Capitalism' as defined below. The term “Free Market Capitalism” has ceased to have meaning when stretched to fit the unparalleled American corporate welfare state.

Principles of Fair Market Capitalism

A Fair Market exists only if there is competition.

o Profits in Capitalism are earned by competition and risk

o Markets that evolve to monopolies must socialized

Fair Market decisions require good market information.

o Product Market: GMO content, Country of Origin. . .

o Labor Market: Free access to and exchange of salary/benefit info.

The producer is responsible up-front for damages intrinsic to their production.

o Social cost taxes on pollution, e.g. Health consequences

o Risk: Undiscovered harms, e.g. Asbestosis, Climate Crisis

To promote the general welfare the government must enforce these principles. For-Profit Healthcare is an example of a Market Fail. America is the only developed country with a For-Profit Healthcare system – and that only since the 1973 HMO Act.

In Issues of Justice the following Principles suggest themselves. That no organization have the right nor the moral dilemma of self-examination and MLK's dictum that Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied. In issues of Social interaction one looks to the Golden Rule.

Job 1: Stopping the Pandemic

It early August 2020. The United States is the epicenter of the global pandemic. And Florida is the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. The March shutdown order brought a large portion of the real economy to a halt, precipitating a stock market, paper economy crash. Other OECD countries sustained the workers and contained the virus. 'Our' government pumped 4 to 5 Trillion dollars into the stock market and neglected to undertake tracking and containment.

If an effective vaccine is not produced and widely employed, the outlook for Jan 20 when a new president if inaugurated, is dismal. Only then can things that ought to have been done in early February be done.

1) Declare a national emergency and invoke the National Defense Procurement Act(?) for PPE, Virus testing, medical equipment production, and other Relevant equipments.

2) Explicitly permit extraction of individualized tracking data from cell phone positioning data limiting use thereof solely to public health purposes in identifying contacts with Covid-19 positives for the duration of the uncontained pandemic.

3) Create HIPA exclusions for Covid-19 to allow personal identification of Covid-19 carriers.

4) Pass M4A.

A STRATEGY FOR CHANGE

We are rushing headlong into the abyss of Global Climate Collapse. The donor-owned Congress, by denial of science, has allowed this problem to fester. And Congress is where we must resolve the problem. This requires that Congress be re-connected to the people – Now! There is no grace period. No 'next' cycle.

That requires a political strategy. The majority of Members of the Congress seated in 2021 will be corporate funded. But they will know that supporting the corporate agenda is no longer sustainable. Enough progressives will have won to make that clear. They will know that the real economy, the wage earners and small businesses - their neighbors' businesses and the former employees thereof, have hit rock bottom. We offer them a path to redemption, and re-election, in 2 Acts.

Act 1 : MEDICARE FOR ALL (M4A)

Tremendous savings.

o Overall costs are reduced by $1 Trillion per year

o A half million medical bankruptcies are reduced to 0

o 48,000 annual deaths by lack of access are reduced to 0

o These are the costs of Corporate Welfare

Far better health outcomes.

o Birth to Death Healthcare. No exclusions for Pre-Existing Conditions.

o Covers Vision, Hearing, Dental, Mental Health, Prescription Drugs.

o No Insurance premiums, deductibles, or co-pays.

o Social Cost Taxes on Tobacco – Reduce Use, Save Lives

o You need medical care? All your doctors are in-plan.

Implement in 1 year

o Because Health Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

o Detailed economic analyses has been published

Displaced Workers: Code Matchers

o There are 3 million medical code matchers at insurance companies and medical facilities, mean salary $30,000/year, ergo $90 Billion. They will be paid full salary for 3 years re-training, e.g. in tuition free public universities/trade schools

ACT 2: Straight Arrow Public Funding of Elections

Every voter gets a $200 voucher account.

To be donated only to candidates bound to take nothing else

o in their campaign, in their time in office.

o These Straight Arrow Candidates will be so designated on the ballot

There will still be corporate funded candidates.

o $120 Million of Voter Vouchers are in play in every Congressional District

o Connecticut has for 20 years elected solid majorities in their state legislature with far more modest public funding

Why Public Funding?

o It can be done Now. (Amending the Constitution takes longer.)

o This legislation complies with Supreme Court decisions on Public Funding

o Because it is Healthcare for Democracy.

These Acts are best done quickly, early in the term of the new Congress.

Two years out the full benefits of M4A will be evident throughout the population.

Your healthy voters will heartily donate their Voter Vouchers to re-elect you.

Following Nina Turner's Dictum “Soft on the People, Hard on the Issues.” We will Redeem our colleagues.

These 2 Acts Change the System, They constitute a – soft revolution --

Those things that could not be done, can now be done.

Climate Justice: The Green New Deal

Comprehensive Multi-Faceted Plan as proposed by Sen. Sanders

o End fracking on Day 1 by withdrawing exceptions to Clean Air and Water Act negotiated by V.P. Cheney in 2003

Funded so as to build the Real Economy out of Depression into a Sustainable Future.

Amended to include a Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax

o Initial Rate of $200 per tonne of CO2 equivalent, CO2e

o All revenue returned in UBI format

o Existing Free Trade Agreements include adjustments for differential CO2e tax rates. (The otherwise odious Free Trade Agreements do get this right)

Move to Regenerative, Sustainable, and Organic Agriculture - away from BigAg with its toxic pesticides, phosphate mining, and GMOs

Strong EPA regulations for waste / water.

Environmental Leadership

Climate Collapse & The GND

The 2018 UN Climate Report has proven wildly optimistic. The degree of Arctic permafrost melt that

was predicted in 2090 was observed in 2019. And it is newly estimated that 700 GigaTons of methane

is trapped beneath the melting permafrost at the bottom, 100 foot depth, of the Arctic Ocean. The

release of that much methane, by itself, would raise world temperatures in excess of 7 degrees C in a

few years. That is off the charts in terms of food uncertainty and mass extinctions.

What must be done, which cannot be done while Trump is President, is the effective elimination of the

fossil fuel industry. This begins with passing public funding of elections to reconnect the Congress to

the people. Elimination of the Fossil Fuel sector cannot be achieved by negotiation with the Fossil Fuel

Sector. It must be imposed by free Members in Congress representing us and our children.

We will pass the comprehensive Green New Deal developed by Bernie's team. It develops renewable

energy and revolutionizes our food and farming system. It is a Marshall Plan level of effort – required

around the world.

This must be complemented by a revenue neutral GreenHouse Gas (GHG) tax at an initial rate of $200

per ton of CO2e produced. The CO2equivalent of a GHG species is its heat trapping potential

expressed as a multiple of that of CO2. It is important that this calculation be taken at the source. For

example in fracking of 'clean burning natural gas' the co-generated methane dominates the CO2e

budget.

This tax applies market forces to speed the reduction in fossil fuel use. It is a revenue neutral tax in

that all revenues are returned in UBI format, which to say an equal share to all people living in

America. The Wall Street Journal of 17 January 2019 argues the economics more fully [1]

At mid June: We are wrestling with a Global Pandemic and the associated economic meltdown. The

pandemic teaches us that we can dramatically curtail fossil use; that the reduction in pollutants is

immediately observable; and that we can put out 4 Trillion dollars (4T$) in zero interest loans on short

notice. At the same time massive glorious Black Lives Matter protests sweep the nation, indeed the

world, revealing the depths of Racial, Economic, and Judicial injustices. Through all this we must find

a path to Climate Justice.

Florida Environmental Issues

I have taken an avid interest in politics since Reagan brought Austerity home and in the environment

since the Ozone Hole was observed and Gore began Congressional hearings on the Climate Crisis.

This was a private (family and friends) obsession with delight in the resolution of Ozone Depletion –

and despair at the corporate dissimulation that provided Climate Denial talking points for the donorowned members of Congress. I did not go public till 2015 – when Bernie opened the door to broader

discussion. The environmental issues in CD3 and Florida that I have most loudly addressed include

Phosphate mines (protests and testimony to Bradford, Union, & Alachua County Commissioners,

Lobby Days in Tally), protests of south Florida devastation by 'Big Sugar', protests of fracking, Sabal

Trail pipeline, Weyhauser land use proposals, and the Toll Roads for no one.

Pump-Up the Working Economy

Jobs – Minimum Wage – Union Rights – Social Security

$18/hr. minimum wage. Do It Now! (3 month Price Re-set for Labor Fraction of Cost)

o Fight for 15 started in 2012. That's $18 now.

o For All workers

Peg Min wage to labor productivity index

o Automation increases productivity. Wages must reflect this.

o The American worker is your Customer

Wage Re-set: Opens all union contracts for re-negotiation

o M4A means health insurance price inflation, benefit contraction is gone.

o Contract labor rates defined as multiples of the Min wage to track automatic Min wage increases

o Counter state “Right to Work” laws by negotiated Federal funding of union dues

Expand social security benefits to reflect Wage Re-set.

o Funding: Remove social security contribution cap.

o Treat capital gains as ordinary taxable income.

Paid Vacation – 2 weeks Min.

Paid family and sick leave – 12 weeks Min.

The Paper Economy

Restore Glass-Stegall Regulation of Banks / Wall Street.

o Too big to fail = too big to exist

Impose Transaction Tax on Stock Trades to Reduce 'House' Take

Impose Wealth Tax

Reverse Tax Cuts

USPS

o Introduce Postal Banking

o Repeal 75 year pension funding requirement

o Recognize cost actors in uniform price mail delivery across America

o Build out high-speed internet across America with USPS uniform pricing.

o Remove the menace to society that Trump appointed to destroy the USPS

FURTHER ELECTION REFORM

Open Primaries with Ranked Choice Voting.

Require voting machines have open source software.

Universal and permanent Vote By Mail option

Automatic/Mandatory Voter Registration at Age 18

o Precedent: Mandatory Selective Service Registration (for males)

JUDICIAL REFORM

De-militarize police force.

Professional salaries and training (e.g. 3 years) for police officers

End for-profit prison system.

Victimless crime = civil infraction.

End capital punishment.

End cash bail system.

Convert prison system from punishment to rehabilitation.

End war on drugs – drug use is a mental health issue.

Legalize marijuana for recreational use, clear convictions,

Abolish “Stand your Ground” laws.

Federal investigation/prosecution of injuries/death by Law Enforcement Officers

The Senate Confirmation Process under Sen. McConnell makes a mockery of judicial impartiality or even competence. The only present legal recourse is judicial, and Senatorial, Impeachment. It is not rational to allow respect for the Judicial Branch to cloak the destruction of Constitutional checks and balances.

EDUCATION REFORM

Federal per student funding for Pre-K to 12

o no Disadvantaged School Districts.

o Dramatically reduce regressive property taxes

Tuition free public universities and trade schools.

o GI Benefits used for living expenses

Professional salaries for all teachers.

No public funding of for-profit schools.

Cancel student debt.

Restructure student loans to 1960's format.

National Security: Update Threat Assessment

Climate Chaos produces ever more National Security breaches

o This is the natural role of the National Guard

o Abolish FEMA - Its contracting latitude fosters Disaster Capitalism

Novel Viruses

o Coronavirus is the greatest National Security Breach in our History

o Restore pandemic response team. Contain the threat offshore.

o Secure Supply Chains, Logistics, and National Means of Production.

Ban military contractors in war zones.

o A first step in Ending Endless Wars

o Apply savings to salaries of enlistees – our soldiers are professionals

End international sanctions that punish populations.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are American controlled vehicles of unconventional warfare.

o For example: Ukraine default on loans invoked 'modern agricultural techniques' clauses giving American GMO seeds and toxic pesticide companies forced entry into what had been a sustainable organic food powerhouse.

o Re-define 'loans' to nation states as zero-interest co-investment contracts

Veterans

Fully fund VA – There are presently 49,000 unfunded staff positions

End veteran homelessness.

Preserve the VA as a separate full service medical facility dedicated to care of our veterans

Make less veterans: End wars of choice, Wars for Oil

SOCIAL JUSTICE

LGBTQ rights.

Religious freedom – ALL religions.

Respect separation of church and state.

Minority housing and business grants.

Path to citizenship

DACA / DREAMers / TPS protections.

Abolish DHS and its ICE and CBP units. These are products of the extremely problematic 2003 AUMF – the repeal of which is long overdue

Abolish immigrant detention for misdemeanor border crossing

o Ankle tagging is cost effective. And (relatively) humane.

Codify Women’s Reproductive Rights

Center foreign policy on human rights.

Gun control: background checks + train, test, license, insure.[4]

—Tom Wells' campaign website (2022)[6]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Since mid-2016 Tom Wells has been devoting the bulk of his time and effort to running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida Congressional District 3. This effort includes active face-to-face campaigning; exploring the issues raised in these conversations; and both defining solutions, what needs to be done, and developing political strategies to get it done.

This problem-solving orientation is a natural consequence of his education & work experience. Tom earned his B.S. in physics at the California Institute of Technology, followed by a Ph'D in theoretical physics at the University of Maryland. Tom then worked: a) 15 years at Georgia Tech, predominantly in research to develop the microwave measurement & analysis to support stealth technology for the Department of Defense, b) as lead engineer at a succession of small microwave technology companies, before c) starting his own company in 2005 to develop solutions to a small class of long-standing Air Force requirements.

Tom studied science hoping to do some distributed good while make a living. Finally he realized that in America the interface of science with life - politics - is broken. That th