In September 1997 the US Naval Institute ran an article I wrote titled “The Devil is in the Details: Information War in the Field and Fleet.” Now 13 years later there are a few things I wrote in that article I wish I could take back! But for the most part I believe it...
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Highly respected writer and industry analyst Loren B. Thompson has just penned an opinion piece on recent changes in the Pentagon related to how DoD does IT.  The piece, titled “The Twilight of Network-Centric Warfare” is worth a full read by anyone in the IT business, in or out of government. Dr. Thompson argues...
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Code for America is a great project with an exciting mission.  They exist to help bring programming and technical talent, especially web2.0 talent, to the issues and challenges facing city governments. You are no doubt aware that cities are under great financial pressure.  And we citizens of cities are as well, which means the...
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The White House has issued a draft for comment of a new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The strategy draft was introduced by Howard Schmidt in a White House blog: A National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Howard’s introduction included: “Today, I am pleased to announce the latest step in moving...
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On June 10, 2010, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) unveiled a major cybersecurity bill designed to modernize, strengthen, and coordinate US Cyber defenses. Senators Collins, Carper and Lieberman introduced this bill with the clear articulation to defend not just federal networks but the Internet itself.  As portion of the...
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Don Adcock is the executive director of the Information Technology Agency  (ITA) of the US Army.  The ITA is the executive agent for many OSD IT functions in the DC area and is a group which must operate a highly functioning IT enterprise at a very high level of availability. Don recently conducted an...
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This post will be cross-posted at Halfofthespear.com With Denis Blair soon to depart as the Director of National Intelligence, the engine driving the speculation over who his replacement will be is in high gear. One of the more unusual names to surface: former President Bill Clinton. Two intelligence professionals and former colleagues – Bob...
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With this post I would like to bring your attention to  CTOlabs.com The purpose of the CTOlabs site is to provide a venue for providing technology concepts and reviews which highlight some of the commercial capabilities of Crucial Point LLC (CTOlabs.com is a subsidiary of Crucial Point). Crucial Point and our collaboration of world...
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General Dynamics is one of the champions of IT support to the DoDIIS mission.  It was great to know they will be continuing to serve in a big way by winning a key prime slot on the DIA SITE contract.  I know many of these performers and leaders and hearing they will be there...
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The FBI has some critically important missions. They have always been sent to address the big crimes, the hard challenges that required the most advanced training and skills.   And they have always had roles in counter espionage and counter terror (with both those roles growing in the last several years).  They have long been...
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