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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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...
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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 articulation of some...
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While rummaging through old files on my hard drive I encountered a piece I wrote in June 2002 which captured in writing something I had been briefing for several years.  I had been briefing “Principles” which I had observed/learned while the J2 of DoD’s JTF-CND and then later J2 of JTF-CNO.   My theory was...
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John Bordeaux is one of the great thinkers of enterprise KM, especially KM related to national security matters.  He blogs at http://jbordeaux.com I wanted to bring your attention to John’s writings for a couple reasons.  One is that John continues to work on some of the most important issues facing the nation today and...
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There is so much FUD on cyber security issues these days, it is actually rare to read a well grounded, well researched article on the topic.  If you would like to see one that I think captures the situation please see Shane Harris’s just written National Journal Magazine article titled “The Cyber Defense Perimeter.” ...
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For enterprise technologists and national security professionals and most of all for those who fit both of those descriptions, please check out Johns Hopkins University’s 2009 Unrestricted Warfare Symposium at: http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium This symposium seeks to advance our understanding of and solutions for some very complex problems related to our nation’s defense.  I’ll be speaking...
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I’ve just posted a draft paper on my site on the topic of Cloud Computing and DoD’s Net Centric Operations.   My intent with this paper is to keep beating it up till it is in condition to publish, and I would value your comments on the paper.  Please check it out at: Cloud_Computing_and_Net_Centric_Operations-3 [late...
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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 to...
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There are several megatrends sweeping the technology industry today.  Some of them are about to be accelerated. I like to use five key topic areas to track megatrends in IT: - Convergence and trend towards unified communications and user empowerment - Globalization and increasing internationalization of IT and demographic shifts - Increasing open development...
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