Journal: MILNET Flags Sorting It Out: New Tools Wrestle Mountains of Data Into Usable Intelligence

August 24, 2009 Pg. 11 By Kris Osborn In 2008, U.S. military forces collected 400,000 hours of airborne surveillance video, up from several thousand hours 10 years ago. So the Pentagon is turning to computers to help save, sort and search it all. “The proliferation of unmanned systems across the battlefield is not going to …

Journal: Washington Post Continues to Die….

Meet Walter Pincus.  He has “covered” the U.S. Intelligence Community for over two decades. Fine Print: U.S. Intelligence and Afghan Narcotics By Walter Pincus Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Click on the story title to read the story.  The entire story is built arouind an Air Force contracting announcement, and everything there-in is taken at face …

Journal: Special Forces Collect, But Cannot Process

Phi Beta Iota: Tip of the Hat to Steven Aftergood and the Federation of American Scientists. “Ongoing SOF operations demonstrate the ability to collect significant amounts of pocket litter, hard copy documents, hard drives, cell phones, and other important hard copy and electronic media with significant intelligence value. However, without specialized expeditionary processing, this information …

Objectives

Phi Beta Iota Objectives Encourage and recognize public intelligence in the public interest Advance public knowledge of the proven process of intelligence (decision-support) Requirements definition Collection management Source discovery & vetting Advanced machine-speed automated processing Advanced desktop analytic tool sets Value of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) over partial proprietary “entrapment” “Full-Spectrum” Human Intelligence (HUMINT) harnessing …