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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Like Yogi Berra said: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”   This is especially true about technology.  Things are changing so fast in the tech world it is hard to keep up with the state of today’s IT, which means it is even harder to predict where it is going tomorrow.  I...
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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.” ...
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If all goes well I’ll get a speaking part at the next DoDIIS Worldwide Conference at Orlando 17-21 May 2009.  I love this conference.  It is attended by great folks, many of whom are technologists with a deep background in a favorite mission area. The greatest systems integrators come to the conference.  And the...
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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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This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in cyberspace which was first posted here. Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction, with powerful computing grids giving incredible computational power to users and with autonomous robots...
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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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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,...
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This post provides a summary of day one of the STRATCOM Synergy conference.  The conference is focused on integrating combat ops/intelligence implications for national intelligence processes.   Conference leader Brigadier General Billy Bingham (USAF, ret) opened the conference by reviewing what was discussed last year’s Synergy conference.  He also laid out the goal for this...
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Jeffrey Carr sent a short broadcast via Twitter the other day: ” New post on 3D imaging and Virtual Earth – mind blowing video http://bit.ly/3SxtdA ” Jeffrey was blogging about a capability shown in the short clip below: As you watch that, keep in mind that what you are seeing is a capability that...
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