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2013/01/09

Patrick Meier: Creating Resilience through Big Data

How to Create Resilience Through Big Data I’ve been invited by PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation to give the opening remarks at an upcoming event on interdisciplinary dimensions of resilience, which is being hosted at Georgetown University. This event is connected to their new program focus on “Creating Resilience Through Big Data.” I’m absolutely de-lighted to be involved …

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2013/01/082013/01/08

Steve Aftergood: Intelligence System Acquisition

New Procedures for Intelligence System Acquisition January 8th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood The Director of National Intelligence issued a directive last month prescribing procedures for major system acquisitions by elements of the intelligence community. The directive defines a multi-phase process for identifying critical needs, evaluating alternative paths to meet those needs, and so forth. See …

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2013/01/082013/01/08

Mongoose: The bloodhounds of [corrupt] capitalism

Corporate intelligence The bloodhounds of capitalism It is a good time to be a corporate investigator SHERLOCK HOLMES once remarked that: “It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” These days, detective work is a huge business. Thanks to globalisation, there is a lot that companies would like to know but don’t, …

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2013/01/042016/03/26

Reflections on Reform 2.3 Numbers for 30% DoD Cut over 2-4 Years

It never occurred to me, when I lost the first bureaucratic battle on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in 1992, that my innate sense of integrity [do the right thing] would lead me to resign from the Marine Corps civil service in 1993 as a very young GM-14, and spend not five, not ten, but twenty …

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2013/01/022013/01/02

Review: Using Data Sharing to Improve Coordination in Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding

Andrew Robertson and Steve Olson (eds.) 4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent First Step, Four Disappointments, January 2, 2013 This is one of the more useful reports to come out of the US Institute of Peace and its collaborative effort with the National Academy of Engineering and I highly recommend it for either free reading …

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2013/01/012013/01/01

Review: Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History

Colin Gray 5.0 out of 5 stars Colin Gray is THE top strategist in the Enlgish language, January 1, 2013 I have been a huge fan of Colin Gray since reading and reviewing his Modern Strategy. My own particular interest is “intelligence with integrity” and my motto is “the truth at any cost reduces all …

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2012/12/282012/12/28

Mike Nelson: Cognitive Surplus Killing Monopoly Capital

If you care about technology, the future, and economics, you’ll find LOTS of interesting links here. The tech debate blasts off (a linkfest) It took almost a year for me to be taken seriously on the “technology is undermining capital” front, so it was extremely exciting to see the debate blast off in serious economic …

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