Category: Briefings & Lectures

NATIONAL INFORMATION STRATEGY:

CENDI & COSPO AS CATALYSTS

FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS

Introduction Open Source Roots–Copeland Anecdote Informing the Consumer or Collecting Secrets? 90% of Consumer's Input Unclassified & Unanalyzed (Congress, White House, Bureaucracy, Foreign Governments, Lobbyists, Think Tanks, Media, Friends–<10% Intelligence) 40-80% of Producer's Input from Open Sources–Allen Dulles New Threats/Environments Lend Themselves to OSINT Coverage Jig-Saw Puzzle Analogy–OSINT and Other Means Opportunity for Savings in Every Government Department PATHFINDER at the Dawn of the 21st Century

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DOC (1 Page): NDU Global Information Explosion

It was a privilege to be asked by the National Research Council to comment on the U.S. Army's multi-billion dollar future communications architecture.  I noticed immediately that the entire program assumed self-generated bits and bytes and made no provision, ZERO PROVISION, for acquiring and making sense of external information from anyone outside the DoD “grid.”

As a Marine familiar with how our arriving Marines could not communicate with the US Embassy they were coming to save, and as a CEO newly familiar with the plethora of open sources relevant to the real world of operations other than war (OOTW) and what is now called Irregular Warfare (IRWF), I considered my contribution valuable.

They did not.  As with all other early warnings from myself and many others in the 1980's and 1990's, “the Borg” just kept on marching along, oblivous to the real world and the known future requirements.

PDF (18 Pages): 1994 NRC Army Communications

Full Briefing Below the Line

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As presented to the 1993 Foreign Acquisition Workshop in Washington, D.C.