PPT: Heads Up COCOMS
Review: Combatant Commander OSINT Briefing
About the Idea, Briefings & Lectures2003 Czech The Steady State Revolution for National Security and International Stability
Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, Historic Contributions
Brian Czech at the time was one of those employees of the U.S. Government who served the public interest with enormous integrity, imagination, and intelligence. Totday he is President of CENTER for theADVANCEMENT of theSTEADY STATE ECONOMY which we have added to our Righteous Sites.
Brian Czech has a Ph.D. in renewable natural resources from the University of Arizona and is a certified wildlife biologist. He applies his training and experience to economic issues, especially macroeconomic policy. He has 20 years of experience in federal, state, and tribal governments with duties ranging from firefighting to managing elk herds to developing national conservation policies. Brian is also a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech University, where he teaches ecological economics and endangered species policy.
Below is his contribution to OSS '03.
2003 Davis (US) Analytic Paradoxes: Can Open Source Intelligence Help?
Analysis, Communities of Practice, Historic Contributions
PLATINUM Jack Davis, De Facto Dean of the U.S. Intelligence Analytic Corps
For over three decades, Jack Davis has been the heir to Sherman Kent and the mentor to all those who would strive to be the world’s most effective all-source intelligence analysts. As a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and educator, he combines intellect, integrity, insight, and an insatiable appetite for interaction with all manner of individuals regardless of rank and disposition. He is the most able pioneer of “analytic tradecraft,” the best proponent for the value of human analysis over technical processing, and one of those very special individuals who helped define the end of 20th Century centralized analysis and the beginning of 21st Century distributed multinational multiagency analysis.
Clicking on the photo leads to a seminal essay by Jack Davis on Sherman Kent and the Analytic Craft.
Below are his origional reflections prepared for OSS '03. At the Frog is a link to his unqiue collection of memoranda on Analytic Tradecraft.
2003 Edwards (UK) Open Source Intelligence Gathering Within the UK Police National Intelligence Model (NIM)
Historic Contributions, Law Enforcement
PLATINUM LIFETIME AWARD Detective Steve Edwards, MBE, UK
Detective Steve Edwards, Member of the British Empire, has been the foremost law enforcement pioneer in the field of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and it is with heartfelt admiration that we applaud his recent recognition by the Queen of England. His gentle, self-effacing, sober appreciation of the nuances of crime, private sector offerings, and government needs for innovation have enabled him to bring disparate personalities and capabilities together in a most effective manner.
Steve Edwards is one of two individuals to have received Royal Honours for their accomplishments in the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) field.
Below are the slides and text from his presentation to OSS '03.
2003 Fyffe (CA) Intelligence Sharing and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Historic ContributionsGreg Fyffe retired before his contributioins could be properly acknowledged. He excelled at understanding the value of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in meeting political decision-support needs that must of necessity be discussed with and explained to parties outside the government. He also excelled at seeing the role that OSINT could play in facilitating what the Swedes and Phi Beta Iota now call Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making, or M4IS2.
Below are his summary and his paper as presented on this vital topic.
2003 Hardee (US) Special Operations Panel on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Historic Contributions, MilitaryJim Hardee was the senior civilian in the Joint Intelligence Center (JIC) of US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) during the 1990's, and was instrumental in ensuring that General Peter Schoomaker, then Commander-in-Chief of USSOCOM, received a briefing from Robert Steele in 1997, at which point General Schoomaker ordered the creation of the USSOCOM Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Branch, today still the only truly effective OSINT unit inthe US Government, with global reach across all languages and mediums. In our view, Mr. Hardee's contributions to the establishment of OSINT as a foundation for today's all-source analysis have not been properly recognized by his Command or his Government. He is one of a tiny handful of original pioneeers still standing and we hold him in the very highest regards. Below are the slides he used in introducing a panel on the application of OSINT to special force needs.
2003 Harrison (US) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Requirements, Collection, and Production Management
Historic Contributions, Military
PLATINUM LIFETIME AWARD Mr. Ben Harrison, OSINT Pioneer
Mr. Ben Harrison is a master of both the military bureaucracy, and the global open source intelligence (OSINT) world. He has been a pioneer in all respects–helping the larger Department of Defense Community understand OSINT; creating innovative solutions for his own Command, the U.S. Special Operations Command; and helping teach otherss about the basics of OSINT. Within the U.S. Department of Defense, he is the tip of the spear for DoD OSINT.
The USSOCOM unit today answers 40% of all (ALL) Global War on Terror (GWOT) Essential Elements of Information (EEI) from all (ALL) Special Forces world-wide. The OSINT they produce is specific, timely, and actionable. Below is the low-key public presentation given by Ben Harrison at OSS -03. He cannot talk about the concept we pioneered in the late 1990's, Black OSINT, but he it is safe to say that he is the one person in the US Government that has achieved “dominance” on both White OSINT and Black OSINT.
