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By: CTO Bob Gourley

CTO Bob Gourley — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:40:48 +0000

Steven, Thanks much for the comment and the pointer to your post, which I enjoyed reading.
I'll see you on Twitter.
Cheers,
Bob

By: Steven Mandzik

Steven Mandzik — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:35:31 +0000

Bob – great post and Im glad u called them megatrends. Im working the inside on this one and Im seeing the changes but only when i take the 30,000 foot view.
I really believe that strong leadership and modern views on our reality will make the biggest difference. I hope that either Obama can bring these elements to bear. Or, that economic troubles will force us to move forward.
I recently wrote that one of your megatrends UC is completely passing the intelligence community by.
http://www.swordplay.tv/2008/11/07/unified-commun…
It seems like mobile devices will too. We'll go right into the next one, cloud computing to see if we can get that one down.
Also, to Joe's point, I recently heard a former head of MI-5 talk and she mentioned the same exact thing. As our world vision becomes more linked and silo's are broken down, our allies will become all the more useful. Though, the real truth is they are already extremely useful as a lot of the latest worldwide successes to threats have shown.

By: CTO Bob Gourley

CTO Bob Gourley — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:04:02 +0000

Joe,
Thanks much– as always I appreciate your comments and context. And I agree strongly with your observation of the convergence of foreign and domestic being enabled because of IT.
v/r,
Bob

By: Joseph Mazzafro

Joseph Mazzafro — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:37:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago one of then "candidate" Obama's intel advisers asked me what I thought the most important issue/trend was or would be in intelligence for a new administration. I sai without hesitation "convergence" but I did not mean IT convergence I meant the convergence of foreign and domestic intelligence, which our Intel Community is not well organized to deal with (i.e. the Wall Debate from the 9/11 Commission Hearings). Of course, this the convergence of foreign and domestic intelligence is possibility because it can be enabled by IT convergence
joemaz

By: CTO Bob Gourley

CTO Bob Gourley — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:10:43 +0000

Teri I have to agree and wish I would have commented on that. This could be a very virtuous approach because of the enhanced security, functionality and capability. Then you add in the fact that it could generate huge economies of scale and it just makes more sense.
Thanks,
Bob

By: Teri Centner

Teri Centner — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:41:08 +0000

Aside from the security aspect that's been commented on, I think there's a cost savings to be found. Numerous government agencies spend lots of money reinventing the wheel because there's no single organization that's keeping track of all the different projects. Within the DoD alone, there are several organizations that are trying to save money by thinking as "an enterprise." Imagine the economies of scale if the whole federal government the (only) enterprise.

By: CTO Bob Gourley

CTO Bob Gourley — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:12:16 +0000

Tim, thanks for the comments. I think we can make dramatic, order of magnitude (maybe even two order of magnitude) improvements in the state of IT security, if we have a strong federal CTO who can articulate and move out on this vision.
Cheers,
Bob

By: Tim Stewart

Tim Stewart — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:45:51 +0000

Here is a quite timely article pertinent to the security commentary. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Can-the-Air-For...

By: Tim Stewart

Tim Stewart — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:41:06 +0000

Bob,
I'm teaching a graduate course in security this term (CIS 523 – Security in Distributed Systems). One of the papers I make the students author is an opinion/argument piece reacting the statement, "A Computer Network is NEVER secure."
I wish I had your optimism and faith in the bureaucratic condition, but the "perimeter skirmishes" would be harder to overcome than the security issues, which are largely reactive in nature due to how this game is played.
As always, I deeply enjoy reading your work.