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.
Graphic: Global Intelligence Processing Failure
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Processing, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceThis 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.
Graphic: Four National Reforms
Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Reform, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceSee Also:
2008 Election 2008 Chapter: The Substance of Governance
2002 Robert Steele: Citizen in Search of Integrity (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
1995 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information
1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)
Graphic: 1997 Toffler-Steele Building Blocks
Advanced Cyber/IO, Capabilities-Force Structure, Policies-Harmonization, Reform, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceGraphic: OSINT All-Source Temple
Analysis, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Reform, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceThis is the original graphic that captured Robert Steele's vision for leveraging Open Source Information (OSIF) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to dramatically improve the effectiveness of the classified disciplines and consequently the reach and insight of the all-source analysts.