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Welcome to The Cameron Group

We are a dedicated team of industry professionals in the nuclear and space system fields who have worked with firms such as Toshiba, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, and Pratt and Whitney. We offer consulting services for nuclear and space systems technology programs, Business Processes and Systems Engineering, and have the references and track record which highlight stellar achievement in these fields.

Customer-Centric Consulting for Nuclear, Systems, and Space Engineering Fields

“In this country large-scale development projects of military significance – such as missiles, space vehicles, nuclear propulsion – all suffer grievously from over administration.  Technically unqualified officers do not hesitate to decide complex scientific and engineering problems; to overrule their technical subordinates; to meddle in their day to day activities.  In my own group, at least two-thirds of my own time and that of the top scientists and engineers is wasted by administrative fiat.  Time and again everyone must stop regular work,  and exhaust his energies, in combating administrative errors.  Thousands of hours are lost dealing with the avalanche of memoranda descending from higher administrative levels.  A short while ago, every single technical man in the group was doing paper work ordered from above; we had difficulty releasing one of them from his writing chores to deal with an urgent technical problem.  We were scribbling instead of building nuclear ships; the Russians were forging ahead with new weapons, widening the lead times between the two countries.

 “Russia carries complicated technical projects more efficiently than we, chiefly because she does not subscribe to our quaint notion that top-management of projects is a part-time chore for technical amateurs !  Her long-range development projects proceed on schedule, ours flounder in a tangle of red tape produced by legions of committees and layers of supervisory administrators – all with great power but little personal responsibility for ultimate success of the work.  Even when we ostensibly vest responsibility in a “Czar” he will long since have moved on to a new assignment by the time the smoke screen of organizational “public relations” has been dissipated and the truth of his performance has become public”

ADM H. G. Rickover, “Intellect in Democracy,” Anniversary Dinner of the American Nobel Anniversary Committee, Waldorf Astoria, New York City, January 8, 1961

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