Posts Tagged ‘ CIA ’

Something Wonderful in the Tech Community

September 17, 2009
By BobGourley
Something Wonderful in the Tech Community

I’ve just received word that Dawn Meyerriecks, one of the great’s of American technology, has just returned to federal service. Dawn has delivered real capability into some of the nation’s largest, most complex enterprises. And she has built communities of technologist as she did that, giving many of us someone to look up to...
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OGI Conference: Recommended for enterprise CTOs in the federal space

June 26, 2009
By Bob Gourley
OGI Conference: Recommended for enterprise CTOs in the federal space

The next big Gov2.0 event is the 21-22 July 2009 Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI).  The list of speakers includes some of the greats from the federal IT scene, including: Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO Tim O’Reilly, Visionary of the Web2.0 movement David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School David Wennergren,...
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A Recap of the 2009 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

June 5, 2009
By Bob Gourley
A Recap of the 2009 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

I previously mentioned the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, which was held 17-21 May 2009.  I took lots of notes from the conference: enough, in fact, to fuel this blog for a long long time.  My associate Ryan Kamauff took even more (and more relevant) notes on the sessions there, and both of us kicked the...
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DoDIIS Worldwide Conference 17-21 May 2009

May 7, 2009
By Bob Gourley
DoDIIS Worldwide Conference 17-21 May 2009

The DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held in Orlando Florida this year, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. I really like this conference.  It is filled with folks I like and centers around a hard enterprise mission that cries out for strong IT solutions. The theme of this years conference is “Empowering Decision Advantage.”  The...
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New Command to Focus on Cybersecurity for DoD and IC

April 22, 2009
By Bob Gourley
New Command to Focus on Cybersecurity for DoD and IC

The Wall Street Journal just ran an article titled:  “New Military Command to Focus on Cybersecurity.”   In it they indicate “current and former officials familiar with the plans” say a new military command will be established to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve US offensive capabilities in cyberwar. WSJ also reports...
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The Number One Reason To Move To Open Source: Security

April 17, 2009
By Bob Gourley
The Number One Reason To Move To Open Source: Security

I just read Bill Vass’s latest blog entry titled:  “The No. 1 Reason to Move to Open Source is to IMPROVE Security” Bill opens this article with: “If you are like me, and you have been involved in cryptography and Cyber Security for a long time, it’s obvious to you that commercial open source code...
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Melissa Hathaway Op-Ed on Cyber Security

October 14, 2008
By Bob Gourley

Below I’m going to post, in its entirety, the text of an e-mail I received from the ODNI notification service.   The subject is an op-ed written by Melissa Hathaway, a senior leader who has been spearheading significant coordination action in the federal government (opinion: Melissa is perhaps the most effective SES-level leader in the...
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Collaborate and Deliver With More Cowbell

September 11, 2008
By Bob Gourley

Participants in this week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference, hosted by the ODNI’s ICES group and the CIA’s WIRe team, were treated to a shared experience that is hard to capture in a blog post.   So I won’t try.  But I will say this, we all had some great collaboration and coordination lessons and context, and...
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Social Media and Web2.0 for National Security Planners

August 18, 2008
By Bob Gourley

Over the last couple weeks I sent several friends and associates a draft article I was working up on Web2.0 for National Security Planners.  I enjoyed pulling that together, since it helped me convince myself that the right thing to do is to get more senior US strategists engaged in Social Media.  There are...
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Day Three of the Synergy Conference

August 17, 2008
By Bob Gourley

This is the third and final post on some observations from the 2008 Synergy conference (co-hosted by Stratcom). The day opened up with a great update on operational intelligence in the modern age, with Mr. John J Powers of the Defense Intelligence Operations Coordination Center (DIOCC) providing a first hand look at the DIOCC, its...
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