Journal: Intelligence & Innovation Support to Strategy, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Acquisition
Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …
Reference: Open Innovation vs. Dinosaur Defenses
The Imperfect is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation Wendy Seltzer, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 25, 2010 Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It often fails to stop piracy and frequently blocks non-infringing uses. Yet the drive to correct these imperfections masks a …
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Journal: Missile Defense as a Metaphor
The Obama Administration means well, no question about it. They simply do not know what they do not know, and no one within the US Intelligence Community appears capable of speaking truth to power. The truth that needs to be spoken is that Washington lacks both integrity and intelligence (as in thoughtful holistic decision-making). Washington …
Journal: Where Our Defense Money Goes
Boston Globe August 5, 2009 By Bob Edgar and Bill Goodfellow BY THREATENING to veto the defense appropriations bill if it included money for more F-22 stealth fighter planes, President Obama signaled that he was going to put an end to the way business has been done in Washington. We applaud the president?s announcement, but …
2009 Defense Science Board Report on Understanding Human Dynamics
This report is so out-of-character for the Defense Science Board (DSB), and yet so vital to the emerging concept of “full-spectrum” Human Intelligence (HUMINT), that we consider it a “must read.” It may well be one of the most important DSB reports of the decade. It inventories the mish-mash of endeavors that presume to collect, …
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2008 Balanced Budget 101 ELECTION 2008 – Lipstick on the Pig (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Balanced Budget 101 Robert David STEELE VivasChapter in ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Earth Intelligence Network, 2008) Original As Published Full Text Online to Facilitate Automated Translation
