National Information Strategy : An action plan for building competitive advantage for Indian Industry and business.
Dr. M R Rawtani* and J.P.S.Ahuja**
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Reference: Dan Kuehl on National Information Strategy
Briefings (Core)Professor Dan Kuehl is perhaps the top authority in the U.S. Government's war college environment on the subject of a national information strategy–the briefing below is balanced, brilliant, and to the point: we do not have a naitonal information strategy, we need a national information strategy.
Reference: Information Strategy 101
Media ReportsAs we contemplated the reality that the U.S. Government does not have an information strategy, we realized it may not even know what one is. Below is a snippet from an EZine article that captures the broad picture.
Design an Information Strategy
Despite investments of millions of dollars in Information Technology, we seldom come across an organization that has actually designed an information strategy that focuses on collecting and processing information for strategic decision making.
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Journal: Government Information Policy & Security Not Favoring the Public
Legislation, Reform
EDITORIAL: Invasion of medical privacy
Personal information is up for grabs with government health care
Privacy rights are under threat in the House's government health care plan. While plowing through the more than 1,000-page Democratic House bill, Declan McCullagh of CBS News uncovered provisions that would allow startling privacy intrusions. The innermost secrets of people's personal lives would be made available to thousands of government bureaucrats.
Section 431(a) requires the Internal Revenue Service to give detailed taxpayer information to the new health choices commissioner and state health programs. The helpful government just wants to be able to tell citizens when they might be eligible for benefits they somehow might have overlooked. Besides letting all those government bureaucrats know about an individual's income, number of dependents and filing status, the plan has an unlimited catchall that would require disclosure of “other information as is prescribed by” the health commissioner. The IRS would be commanded to provide whatever information about individual taxpayers the health choices commissioner deemed necessary.
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2009 Reference: America’s Southwest Border Initiatives
08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, White Papers
Phi Beta Iota: 100's of personnel, millions of dollars, far short of what has been called for (tens of thousands of personnel, tens of millions of dollars).
Reference: Concept of Operations (CONOP) for the National Maritime Intelligence Center (NMIC)
12 Water, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Military
Rear Admiral Gilbride has promulgated the Concept of Operations (CONOP) for the National Maritime Intelligence Center (NMIC), effective 19 August 2009.
It is quite good and serves as a model for all others. it is, as of now, the single best attempt to truly integrate the concerns and capabilities of the inter-agency community of interest.
A few shortfalls are easily corrected. The Department of Agriculture and food security, for example, are not embraced. That needs to be corrected. The CONOPS is also too focused on security and avoids both protective and enabling opportunities for maritime intervention. Environmental Impacts, for example, focuses only on weather and the opening of the Northwest Passage, not on pollution or other maritime dumping activities that further toxify 75% of our Earth.
Worth a Look: Public Law 109-163 dated 6 January 2006
Government, Legislation, Military, Policy, Reform, StrategyCongress tasked the Department of Defense with ten specific OSINT-related tasks that to the best of our knowledge have never been acknowledged nor completed by DoD.
Highlights of the missing ten tasks:
1) A plan for providing funds
2) A description of management now and as it could be improved
3) A description of tools, systems, centers, organizational entities amd procedures
4) A description of proven tradecraft including operational security
5) A description of OSINT fusion with other disciplines
6) A description of a training plan and guidance for DoD intelligence personnel
7) A plan to incorporate oversight of OSINT
8] A plan to incorporate the OSINT specialty int oall existing DoD personnel systems;
9) Aplan to utilize reserve personnel; and
10) A plan for the use of the Open Source Information System (OSIS).
