Balance – Page 32 – Public Intelligence Blog

Inspired by Steve Denning, former Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) of the World Bank, this graphic tells the story of OSINT in contrast to the traditional disciplines.

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Still today, here's how the secret world plays the game:

HUMINT recruits a player to drop or catch the ball on command, but communications are so slow they inevitably screw it up.

SIGINT has listening devices in the dug-out, and tries to call the game from what is said there.

IMINT used to take an image of the field every three days, now they have a drone overhead and if they don't like the look of things, put a drone into the crowd (missing the umpire, who was the target).

MASINT tries to sniff the ball leaving the glove, and when that fails asks for billions more.

OSINT uses Twitter to both follow the score and compile impressions of each player–it's called crowd-soourcing.

Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence

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Graphic: Meeting 21st Century Transnational Challenges – Building a Global Intelligence Paradigm

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Graphic: OSINT Marketplace

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The OSINT Marketplace will not fully develop until we constrain the corruption within the military-intelligence-industrial complex that substitutes “butts in seats” with clearances and precioius little else to offer, for tangible substance that can be easily shared across all boundaries. Butts in seats are a waste of time-energy. We must also stop paying more than once for anything, which requires a coherent requirements system, harmonzied contracting–we cannot even get one agency to have one OSINT contracting officer uber alles–and an OSINT “cloud” repositiory.

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Graphic: Jan Herring’s Triangle for Decision-Support

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Jan Herring, then National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Science & Technology (S&T) was the first modern OSINT pioneer, along with George Marling and other S&T analyts. After he retired he devleoped this triangle as part of his training offered via the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, still the best institution around.

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Graphic: Linear versus Diamond Paradigm

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First presented in Canada in 1994, this was the first depiction of how out-of-date the existing government intelligence communities are. They are hierarchical Weberian stove-pipes out of touch with reality and anyone who is actually steeped in reality.

The old intelligence paradigm is on the left–a very controlled hierarchical stovepipe process that is best characterized as twelve-month planning cycles followed by three-month writing cycles and eighteen-month editing cycles. Most of what we produce is too late, not right, and not useful.

The new intelligence paradigm makes the acme of skill “knowing who knows” (with a tip of the hat to Stevan Dedijer) and the ability to put a consumer with a question in touch with a source (or multiple sources) who can create new tailored knowledge in the instant.

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Graphic: Global Intelligence Processing Failure

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This slide, less the bulls-eye that still does not exist, was created by the Collection Requirements & Evaluation Staff (CRES) of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in the mid to late 1990's. It is still more or less on target, which should give the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) something to think about–MASINT is a bust, HUMINT is inept, and OSINT is underfunded. Time for leadership.

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