Graphic: OSINT Quadrants and Green to Red Feed
Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Collection, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
With help from a talented person who must remain anonymous at this time, this was crafted years ago at a time when we thought Intelink-U would be allowed to mature and handle 90 or more countries. It is still stuck at 11 and has zero ability to ingest the multiple firehoses that are easily assembled today.
Graphic: OSINT Multinational Outreach Network
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Collection, ICT-IT, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Pioneered by LtCol Beavers and others in Bosnia, this remains the single most brilliant depiction of what all of our inter-agency task force networks should like like. This is not rocket science, it just requires integrity, intelligence, and imagination on the part of each Commander.
Graphic: OSINT Global Pyramid from OSIS-X to Intelink-X
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, Earth Orientation, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
This remains the intellectual property of Robert Steele and is the core concept for ultimately creating a World Brain and EarthGame that engage all human minds and connect all humans to all information in all languages all the time.
Both the Open Source Information System – External (OSIS-X) and Intelink – X will be United Nations “virtual clouds” that achieve a degree of assured security that is good enough through to the secret level, and thus able to engage all in what the Swedes call Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2).
Graphic: OSINT Cell
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, ICT-IT, Innovation, Multinational Plus
This was the basic OSINT cell recommended to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 1990. We still need to get to where every Agency and every major Command and every partner across each of the other seven tribes of intelligence has such a cell, and they are all linked in a global Open Source Information System – External (OSIS-X) that is NOT controlled by the USA.
Bruce Berkowitz: Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution The DI and “IT”
Government, Ineptitude, IO ImpotencyFailing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution: The (CIA) DI and “IT”
Bruce Berkowitz
Studies in Intelligence, 2007
During 2001-2002, I was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, the “think tank” attached to the CIA’s training center for analysts. The CIA has long used such scholars as expert analysts, but the Kent Center wanted to try something new: using an outside scholar to study the process of analysis itself. In particular, I was charged with looking at how the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) uses information technology (IT), and how it might use this technology more effectively.
Reference: The Autocatalysis of Social Systems and the Emergence of Trust
Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural IntelligenceCore Quote: “Under the condition of double contingency, every self-commitment, however accidentally arisen or however calculated, will acquire information and connective value for the action of others. Precisely because such a system is formed in a closed and self-referential way — namely A is determined by B and B by A — every accident, every impulse, every error is productivec [of the social system]….Without ‘noise,' no system.” Citing Niklas Luhmann, Social Systems, Writing Science (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 116.
