Budgets & Funding – Page 43 – Public Intelligence Blog

2006/12/292009/07/31

2006 Markowitz (US) Open Source Information and US Transitions to and from Hostilities (Defense Science Board Report, December 2004), in Relation to Information-Sharing with non-DoD and Froeign Parties

10 Security, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Historic Contributions, Legislation, Policy, Strategy, Threats

NOTE: By “off the record” Dr. Markowitz has clarified that this information may be shared as we are sharing it, but those benefiting from our sharing should treat the knowledge as if they had acquired it “off the record,” as personal views that should not be attributed nor accepted as anything other than background perceptions.

PLATINUM LIFETIME AWARD, Dr. Joseph Markowitz

Dr. Joseph Markowitz is without question the most qualified Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneer in the ranks of those presently in or retired from U.S. government service. As the only real chief of the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) he tried valiently to nurture a program being systematically undermined by both the leadership and the traditional broadcast monitoring service. When he moved on to advise the Defense Science Board, he served America well by helping them fully integrate the need for both defense open source information collection and exploitation, and defense information sharing with non-governmental organizations. His persistent but diplomatic efforts merit our greatest regard.

2006/12/242009/08/07

2006 Sutton (US) Global Coverage, Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Briefings (Core), Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Historic Contributions, Key Players, Policies, Strategy, Threats

Boyd Sutton was one of a handful of great intelligence community leaders who understood how to handle and get the most out of what CIA described as “self-starters” (they have up the idea after half of both classes quit within give years–go along bureaucrats are still the norm). He also had a huge mind, and went form being in charge of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) vault dealing with all external technical programs (the Advanced Program and Evaluation Group) to being a senior executive at the National Reconaissance Office (NRO), and then a retiree consultant charged by then DNI George Tenet with establishing the requirements for Global Coverage–the answer: $10 million for each of 150 “lower tier” countries and issues including non-state actors and emerging threats, or $1.5 billion a year year–today that would be $3 billion. Boyd's contribution of the unclassified version of his study to the public, in the public interest, is a significant example of individual integrity in the service of the Republic.

Click on the Frog to connect to his original 1997 study slides and full text, all unclassified as released.

Challenge of Global Coverage Study for the DCI 1997

2006/12/172013/02/09

Interview: Robert Steele on Echo Chamber 2006

About the Idea, Blog Wisdom, Briefings & Lectures, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Definitions, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Strategy

First shot at 21st Century Budget:

$200 billion for military
$200 billion for peace
$100 billion for cyber-all

2006/07/182009/07/18

Budget Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Budgets & Funding

2006	US	Budget	Steele	Open Source Agency Budget of $2 Billion a Year
2006	US	Budget	Steele	Commercial Imagery Spending Plan
2005	US	Budget	Steele	$2 Billion a Year Obligation Plan for Open Source Agency
2003	US	Budget	Steele	SASC One-Pager on Recommended DoD OSINT Investment Strategy
1999	UK	Budget	Steele	Observations on the Intelligence Budget
1992	US	Budget	Donahue	National Funding Directions for Open Source Intelligence