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2002 Hardee (US) Growing an Open Source Program for the U.S. Special Operations Command and the Global War on Terrorism

The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has always taken Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) more seriously than the rest of the government, and after General Peter Schoomaker, then Commander-in-Chief, USSOCOM, gave the order in 1997, to establish a separate branch in the Joint Intelligence Center (JIC) and integrate OSINT into all Special Operaitons Forces (SOF) schoolhouses, …

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2002 Hock (US) The World of Information: Content, Content, and Content

PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, Dr. Ran Hock Dr. Ran Hock has done more than any single individual to educate both government and private sector parties with respect to the value of the deep web.  He has single-handedly trained hundreds of individuals in the nuances of this major new intelligence resource base.  Emphasizing individual analytic skills and …

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2002 Klavans (US) Technology Mapping: A Workshop on (Open) Sources & Methods for Identifying Commercial Opportunities in Technology

Dick is President and Chief Executive Officer  of Maps of Science, having founded the company in 1991. Between 1991 and 2000, he created maps of science for large pharmaceutical, chemical and physics-based firms. He completely rewrote the computer algorithms in 2000, and continues to modify them in order to generate the most accurate maps possible. …

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2002 Manwaring (US) Asymmetry, Conflict, and the Need to Achieve Both Vertical and Horizonal Integration

The outline below does not do justice the rich spontaneous presentation that Col Dr. Max Manwaring of the Strategic Studies Institute shared with OSS ’02. Dr. Manwaring may well be America’s top authority on both “uncomfortable small wars” and on “gangs against governments.” He is the originator of the six generations of warfare (the US …

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2002 Vickers (US) Inconvenient Warning

Mr. Vickers, the National Intelligence Officer for Warning (NIO) addressed the American version of policy-maker push-back on warning: “inconvenient warning.”  The British call it “warning fatigue.” The US Intelligence Community–and all other communities with the possible exceptions of the Nordics, The Netherlands, and Singapore, have failed to triage among the urgent important, the long-term important, …

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