The DoDIIS Conference Agenda is now up at the conference site, and it really looks to be a great one. The confernece will be great for technology leaders in government, technology providers from industry, and the mission-focused executive leadership who seeks to guide both. If you want to shape the future, come to the DoDIIS conference and see what secure enterprises with advanced analytical missions are up to. I've pasted the full agenda below, but … [Read more...]
Pros and Cons: Bill Clinton as DNI
May 24, 2010 By
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 Gourley and Mike Tanji – square off over the merits – or lack thereof – the former President would … [Read more...]
2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
May 21, 2010 By
The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona. This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer. The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS). DoDIIS is all about facilitating the collection, analysis and presentation of intelligence to tactical users and policy … [Read more...]
Intelligence Community Executive Forum on Cyber Operations
May 13, 2010 By
Carahsoft is a unique, trusted firm that helps government find and rapidly acquire the right technologies and helps high tech firms successfully interact with government (which has famously onerous processes for businesses that want to serve the federal mission). Carahsoft is a client of my firm and one of the things I'm particularly proud about is their sponsorship of venues where government and industry tech leaders can interact together. One venue … [Read more...]
Presentation at 2010 WIRe Conference
February 25, 2010 By
The World Intelligence Review (WIRe) held its 2010 Conference Feb 24-25 (see: https://thewireconference.com ). I was allowed to provide some thoughts to the folks gathered there and used the briefing below to help generate some discussion. I hope the briefing made the key point that users are responsible for articulating requirements and for ensuring their chain of command understands what they need in order to accomplish their mission. I know it is … [Read more...]
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria
February 24, 2010 By
This is the concluding post on enhancing IT innovation in support of the Counter Terror effort. The first part focused on the challenge and importance context relevant to design criteria. This post focuses on design criteria and proposes next steps. Transforming the Challenge Into Design Criteria: The legacy IT environment of the counter-terror community is complex. Changes to the environment must be done by design or they may cause unintended … [Read more...]
OGI Conference: Recommended for enterprise CTOs in the federal space
June 26, 2009 By
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, ASD NII and DoD CIO Michael Wertheimer, CTO, ODNI Lovisa … [Read more...]