He said that despite the huge number of responses to the commission's requestforideas, not a single Indian state police chief had sent recommendations.
President Bush says he remains committed to "victory in Iraq, " but in the face of Democratic political advances, he reached out Wednesday to a requestfor new ideas.
Mr. Hollopeter's recent work was sparked by a request last November for space-cleaning ideas from Launchspace Training, a space consulting firm in Bethesda, Md.
Normally, the agency takes its multibillion-dollar annual budget and allocates it to defence contractors, academic institutions and individual scientists who bring ideas to the agency or answer a requestfor proposals.