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Global Futures Partnership (GFP) is now and will forever be centered on Carol Dumaine, one of two CIA employees still standing that we think the world of–the other is Andy Shepard. There are no doubt a handful of others that merit special regard, but they have been locked in the closet with socks in their mouths so they are unknown to us.

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2009/11/252011/07/24

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Mobile, Policies, Policy, Real Time, Reform, Searches, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools

The future of OSINT is M4IS2.

The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2).

The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb):

Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) the instant it is received at any level by any civilian or military element responsive to global OSINT grid. This includes all of the contextual agency and mission specific information from the civilian elements previously stove-piped or disgarded, not only within the US, but ultimately within all 90+ participating nations.

Rule 2: In return for Rule 1, the US IC agrees that the Department of State (and within DoD, Civil Affairs) is the proponent outside the wire, and the sharing of all OSIF originating outside the US IC is at the discretion of State/Civil Affairs without secret world caveat or constraint. OSIF collected by US IC elements is NOT included in this warrant.

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2009/10/202010/07/23

1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Methods & Process, Mobile, Policies, Real Time, Threats

Rock ON, Dude — Steele as Wild Card Speaker

Phi Beta Iota: This started as a short list for the various college and university engineering students that have dialed in, but as we got into it, it became more of a “situational awareness” inventory pulling together both technical “solutions” none of which have been integrated yet, and analytic “requirements” none of which have been satisfied yet.

$75 billion a year for secret intelligence, and we still do not have an analytic desktop toolkit, all-source geospatially and historically and cultural astute back office processing, or global reach to all humans, all minds, all the time. Sucks for us. Let's see what the Smart Mob can do….

We specifically invite suggestions in the Comments for removing items from this list, or for adding items from within this website or from any other website. This is now a work zone. Steele is available to visit any engineering workshop and especially those working on bottom-up clouds like Swarm DPL (transparently scalable distributed programming language).

See also About the Idea, Articles, Briefs, Handbooks, and Historic Contributions. Use the Menu–everything on this stie responds to “OSINT” that is not a good search term. Rock on!

TOTALLY TECH:

2009 Arnold Google: The Digital Gutenberg

2008 Memoranda: Policy-Budget Outreach Tool

2006 USSOCOM Software List and STRONG ANGEL TOOZL

2006 Morville (UK) Ambient Findability Massive Scale Beyond Your Imagination A Recommedned Approach to Creating the World Brain with Instant Recall

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2009/09/162009/09/16

Monograph: The U.S. Intelligence Community and Foreign Policy Getting Analysis Right

Analysis, Monographs

This monograph by Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal, a PDF of 81 pages, is just out (September 2009) from the China Center of the Brookings Institute. In its area of specific focus, getting analysis right, it is a solid B+, short of an A because it continues the unilateralist mind-set that eschews both full engagement with the other seven tribes of intelligence, and with multinational governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations that do not wish to share secrets but are willing to share substantive knowledge.

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2006/07/182009/08/14

Reader Training Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Methods & Process

1997	US	Reader	Admin	Cover, Appreciation, Foreword, Contents
1997	US	Reader	Basch	Secrets of the SuperSearchers: A Personal and Practical Perspective
1997	FR	Reader	Baumard	Learned Nations: Competitive Advantages Through Knowledge Strategies
1997	FR	Reader	Bonthous	Culture: The Missing Intelligence Variable
1997	UK	Reader	Collier	Toward the Global Information Industry and a New Information Paradigm
1997	US	Reader	Donahue	National Funding Directions for Open Source Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Fedanzo	A Genetic View of National Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Fedanzo	Implementing OSINT Through a Distributed Contribution Model
1997	US	Reader	Herring	The Role of Intelligence in Formulating Strategy
1997	US	Reader	Hlava	Selected Professional or Trade Associations in Information
1997	US	Reader	Karraker (WIRED)	Highways of the Mind
1997	US	Reader	Kees	Advanced Information Processing & Analysis
1997	SE	Reader	Leijonhelm	Economic Intelligence Cooperation Between Government and Industry
1997	US	Reader	Markowitz	Community Open Source Strategic Plan (COSPO)
1997	US	Reader	McGill	Private Sector Role in Collecting, Processing, & Disseminating Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	MITRE	Open Source Research Processing Initiative
1997	US	Reader	Peters	After the Revolution
1997	US	Reader	Rheingold	Tools for Thinking–Thinking New Thoughts
1997	US	Reader	Schmidt	A History of Failure, A Future of Opportunity: Reinventions and Deja Vu
1997	US	Reader	Shepard	Intelligence Analysis in the Year 2002: A Concept of Operations
1997	US	Reader	Sibbit	Commercial Remote Sensing: Open Source Imagery Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Steele	ACCESS: Theory and Practice of Intelligence in the Age of Information
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Commercial Imagery (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Draft Legislation: The National Information Strategy Act of 1994
1997	US	Reader	Steele	E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Steele	HAC Surveys Open Source Intelligence (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Information Concepts & Doctrine for the Future
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Intelligence Building Blocks (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Lip Service, Great Pretenders, & OSINT (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy Deficiencies (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	National Intelligence: The Community Tomorrow? (SASA at NSA)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Open Source Intelligence: What Is It? Why Is It Important to the Military?
1997	US	Reader	Steele	OSINT: Graphical Overviews
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to Nat’l Security
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of Open Source Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Talking Points for the Public Interest Summit
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Testimony to Commission on Eliminating Excessive Secrecy in Govt
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware
1997	US	Reader	Studeman	Teaching the Giant to Dance: Contradictions & Opportunities within the IC
1997	US	Reader	Toffler	Global Security & Global Competitiveness (OSS '03 Keynote)
1995	US	Reader	Markowitz	COSPO: Community Open Source Program Office Strategic Plan
1995	US	Reader	Peters	After the Revolution
1995	US	Reader	Steele	House Appropriations Committee Surveys Open Source Intelligence
1995	US	Reader	Steele	Intelligence Building Blocks
1995	US	Reader	Steele	Lip Service, Great Pretenders, and Open Source Intelligence
1995	US	Reader	Steele	Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy Deficiencies
1995	US	Reader	Steele	National Intelligence: The Community Tomorrow? (At NSA, 1995)
1995	US	Reader	Steele	OSINT: What Is It? Why Is It Important to the Military?
1994	US	Reader	Basch	Secrets of the Super-Searchers
1994	UK	Reader	Collier	Toward a Global Information Industry and New Information Paradigm
1994	US	Reader	Englebart	Toward High Performance Organizations
1994	US	Reader	Steele	Draft Legislation: National Security Act of 1994
1994	US	Reader	Steele	Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to Nat’l Sec
1994	US	Reader	Steele	Talking Point for the Public Interest Summit
1993	US	Reader	McGill	Private Sector Role in Collecting, Processing, Disseming Intelligence
1993	FR	Reader	Schmidt	A History of Failure, A Future of Opportunity: Reinvention & Deja Vu
1993	US	Reader	Steele	Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of OSINT

2006/07/182009/07/18

Process Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Methods & Process

2006	US	Process	CRS	Data Mining and Homeland Security
2006	US	Process	Turnbull	GSA Collaborative Workshop on Information Sharing
2005	US	Process	Clapper	Interview
2005	US	Process	DNI	Press Release on Appointment of ADDNI/OS
2005	US	Process	DNI	Office of the DNI Organization Charts
2005	US	Process	Gerecht	Need for New Clandestine Service
2005	US	Process	Harris	ABLE DANGER Summary
2005	US	Process	JHU-APL	Asymmetric Information
2005	US	Process	Kamien et all	Needs Analysis for Information Sharing
2005	US	Process	Liszkiewiez	Reconfiguring the Global System through Mobile Democracy
2005	US	Process	Peters	On the Soul of Intelligence
2005	US	Process	Rushkoff	Open Source Democracy
2004	US	Process	Steele	OSS Proprietary Listing of Capabilities Needed by Open Source Agency
2001	US	Process	Chester	The Atlantic Command’s Open Source Intelligence Approach & Future
2001	US	Process	Dziedzic & Wood	Information Technology as Catalyst for Civil-Military Unity of Effort
1999	US	Process	Appleby	Feedback: The Missing Link in Information Superiority
1997	US	Process	Gupta & Pabian	Tricks of the Trade: Analytic Tools and Techniques
1997	US	Process	Pinchot	Beyond Bureaucracy: Intrapreurship
1993	US	Process	Bermudez	Letter from a Source
1993	FR	Process	Bonthous	Culture: The Missing Intelligence Variable
1993	US	Process	Brodwin & Bernardi	Information Overload
1993	US	Process	Christian	Area Information Servers (WAIS) and Global Change Research
1993	US	Process	Halberstadt	Power and Communication in the Information Age
1993	US	Process	Herring	The Role of Intelligence in Formulating Strategy
1993	US	Process	Horowitz	Understanding Sources: The Real Challenge
1993	JP	Process	Ishii	Cross-Cultural Communication & Computer-Supported Collaboration
1993	US	Process	Magee	The Age of Imagination: Coming Soon to a Civilization Near You
1993	US	Process	Pedtke	Putting Functionality in the Open Source Network
1992	US	Process	Andriole	IT Support for OSINT Analysis & Production (Slides)
1992	US	Process	Andriole	IT Support for OSINT Analysis & Production (Text)
1992	US	Process	Bodansky & Forest	GOP Terrorism Task Force: Research Techniques & Philosophy
1992	US	Process	Fedanzo	Implementing OSINT Through a Distributed Collection Model
1992	US	Process	Kees	Advanced Information Processing and Analysis
1992	US	Process	McIntyre	Competitive Advantage: The Power of Online Systems
1992	US	Process	Ogdin	Words Are Not Enough
1992	US	Process	Sacks	Using the Telephone as a Research Tool
1992	US	Process	Shepard	Analysis in the Year 2002: A Concept of Operations
1992	US	Process	Sibbet	Commercial Remote Sensing: Open Source Imagery Intelligence
1992	US	Process	Tenny	Government Information Wants to be Free
1992	US	Process	Thompson	Ranked Retrieval and Extraction of Open Source Intelligence
1992	US	Process	Tow	Painting the Future: Some Remarks from INTERVAL
1992	US	Process	Whitney-Smith	Information Revolutions and the End of History
2003	US	Process	DoD	Defense Intelligence Meta-Tagging

2006/07/182009/07/31

Analysis Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Analysis

2005	SE	Analysis	Bjore	Sample SILOBREAKER Slides
2005	US	Analysis	OSS	Menopause Memorandum
2003	US	Analysis	Andregg	Wisdom versus Intelligence
2003	US	Analysis	Davis	Analytic Paradoxes: Can OSINT Help?
2003	US	Analysis	Medina	21^st Century Analysis
2003	US	Analysis	Moore	Analytic Competencies
2002	US	Analysis	Andregg	Intelligence-Academia Relationship
1999	US	Analysis	Hueur	The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
1999	US	Analysis	Madison	OSINT and Analysis (One Slide)
1999	US	Analysis	Steele	Future of Analysis (Two Slides)
1993	US	Analysis	Whitney-Smith	Analysis for Information Revolutions: Dynamic Analogy Analysis
1992	US	Analysis	Shepard	Intelligence Analysis in the Year 2002
1955	US	Analysis	NA	Discovering and Understanding Elites