Posts Tagged ‘ DOD ’

Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria

February 24, 2010
By BobGourley
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria

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...
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Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge

February 22, 2010
By BobGourley

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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Twelve Principles of DoD Cyber Conflict

February 13, 2010
By BobGourley

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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The Day DoD KM Died

May 12, 2009
By Bob Gourley
The Day DoD KM Died

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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The Cyber Defense Perimeter: Good report by Shane Harris

April 30, 2009
By Bob Gourley
The Cyber Defense Perimeter: Good report by Shane Harris

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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Unrestricted Warfare Symposium, Sponsored by JHU’s APL and SAIS

February 5, 2009
By Bob Gourley

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...
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Cloud Computing and Net Centric Operations

January 14, 2009
By Bob Gourley

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 entry: for...
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CTOs, Global Cyberwar and Our Collective Future

December 8, 2008
By Bob Gourley
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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The Technology Implications of the Obama Win

November 5, 2008
By Bob Gourley
The Technology Implications of the Obama Win

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 of software and hardware -...
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Update on Federal Cloud Computing

October 29, 2008
By Bob Gourley
Update on Federal Cloud Computing

My last several briefings, including one yesterday at the FIAC, have addressed some of the dramatic changes underway in the IT world.   That briefing is attached here: Download FIACGourleyBrief.pdf The conference had a focus on information assurance, computer security, network security and Chief Information Assurance Officers (CISO) in the federal space.   So I not...
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