What: Location Intelligence for Geospatial Cloud Computing Executive Symposium
When: September 22, 2010
Where: The Newseum’s Knight Conference Center, Washington DC
Event: Location Intelligence GeoCloud DC 22 Sep 10
UncategorizedReference: USDI Open Source Intelligence Instruction
DoD
Phi Beta Iota: Also known as dodi 3115.12, august 24, 2010. While the document displays some tiny hints that someone somewhere is thinking, it is largely bureaucratic pap that sanctifies the existing dysfunctional status quo, to include an SES as a branch chief rather than as the head of a new Department, DO, co-equal to DH and DI and DX. The only glimmer of progress is in requiring a consolidated defense program, but even this will be mangled and prolonged. This is a bean-counter instruction, not a real-world instruction intent on providing OSINT support to policy, acquisition, and operations.
2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action
Graphic: Herring Triangle of Four Levels Need & Cost
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
Journal: Cognitive Dissonance in Afghanistan
07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Methods & Process, Military
The author was “ordered home” within 24 hours (took three days to get him out). Multiple commentaries suggest that he is actually “understated” in his remarks. Below the line is balance of article, Small Wars Journal intelligence commentary, and link to illustrated blog with added value. EDIT of 7 Sep 2010 to add comment from LtCol Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF (Ret), at end.
Outside View: PowerPoints ‘R' Us
United Press International (UPI)
Aug 24 10:19 AM US/Eastern
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) — Throughout my career I have been known to walk that fine line between good taste and unemployment. I see no reason to change that now.
Consider the following therapeutic.
I have been assigned as a staff officer to a headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months. During that time, I have not done anything productive. Fortunately little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well.
We are part of the operational arm of the International Security Assistance Force commanded by U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus. It is composed of military representatives from all the NATO countries, several of which I cannot pronounce.
Officially, IJC was founded in late 2009 to coordinate operations among all the regional commands in Afghanistan. More likely it was founded to provide some general a three-star command. Starting with a small group of dedicated and intelligent officers, IJC has successfully grown into a stove-piped and bloated organization, top-heavy in rank. Around here you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a colonel.
Continue reading “Journal: Cognitive Dissonance in Afghanistan”
2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Denmark 27-28 October 2009)
About the Idea, Briefings & Lectures
Shortcut for final draft 2.5 is www.tinyurl.com/SteeleDK5
NIGHTWATCH Extract: Indian Ocean Chinese Lake
02 China, 03 IndiaChina-Burma (Myanmar): Xinhua reported two Chinese navy ships from the 5th Escort Task Group — the Caohu and Guanhzhou – called at Myanmar's Thilawa Port on 29 August. The visit is to last five days to promote good relations.
Comment: This is the first time Chinese naval ships have called at a port in Burma. It also is a direct challenge to Indian naval dominance of the Indian Ocean region.
Worth a Look: Space Storm Can Fry Power & Water
Worth A Look
On this power-grid map of the United States, the black-circled areas are regions especially vulnerable to collapse during an extreme geomagnetic storm. Inside those boundaries are more than 130 million people. Credit: National Academy of Sciences report on severe space weather.
A contemporary repetition of the Carrington Event would cause … extensive social and economic disruptions,” the report warns. Widespread failures could include telecommunications, GPS navigation, banking and finance, and transportation. The total economic impact in the first year alone could reach $2 trillion (some 20 times greater than the costs of Hurricane Katrina).
The problem begins with the electric power grid. Ground currents induced during an extreme geomagnetic storm can melt the copper windings of huge, multi-ton transformers at the heart of power distribution systems. Because modern power grids are interconnected, a cascade of failures could sweep across the country, rapidly cutting power to tens or even hundreds of millions of people. According to the report, this loss of electricity would have a ripple effect with “water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, fuel re-supply and so on.
Phi Beta Iota: Soviet electromagnetic emission deconfliction and protection standards have always been ten times tougher than US standards–they anticipated the problems US troops now suffer across Afghanistan. Attentive readers will recall the five weeks it took a New Zealand city to restore power after a main power feed fried in place.
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Event: 19-20 October 2010 Washington DC Predictive Analytics
UncategorizedPredictive Analytics World Oct 19-20, 2010 to Washington, DC
Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors. The conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve two objectives:
* Bigger wins: Strengthen the business impact delivered by predictive analytics
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Predictive Analytics World Conference: October, 2010
Tip of the Hat to Vincent Granville at LinkedIn.
