Several specific and new requirements have been given to the national security community as part of the White House review of security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas day. Collection, processing, organization, and dissemination of information is a priority in the new requirements.
This post provides an...
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Posts Tagged ‘ DIA ’
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge
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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Pro OpenSolaris: A personal favorite I recommend to all
For a combination of personal and professional reasons, Pro OpenSolaris is the perfect book at the perfect time for this period in my life.
As a CTO with enterprise-grade experience I know Open Source Software and its many benefits. And as a security professional I have long known of the powerful security features of Open...
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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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Tips for the new CTO: How to engineer a miracle
I ran into so many friends at the AFCEA solutions conference this week. One guy I have not seen in person for years is Mike “Ziggy” Steinmetz. Ziggy is a great leader and thinker at Northrop Grumman. He is also a tremendous collector of wisdom and a teacher who helped prepare me for my...
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CTOs, Global Cyberwar and Our Collective Future
If you are a technologist, please take a moment to download the PDF of the report by the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity. This report, titled Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, is the best proclamation of the challenges of cyber I have read. It is also a roadmap that will help any trying...
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Three Events of Federal CTO Interest: Will You Be At These?
FYI, in case your schedule will allow us to connect in person I wanted
to update you on a few events I plan on being at over the next few
weeks.
The Advanced Technical Intelligence Association TECHINT conference will
be held 9-11 Dec 2008. This conference focuses on the technical
dimensions of intelligence, and has a theme of “integrated
performance.” ...
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Collaborate and Deliver With More Cowbell
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
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
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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