The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 …
Phi Beta Iota: From an individual who trained many of the NCTC analysts, is fully familiar with the database mess as well as the management mind-sets, and wishes to see America get the best value for its $75 billion a year. We have added emphasis (bold) to the two paragraphs below. 18 January 2010 The …
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Online Maps of Current Interest Haiti Maps (PCL Map Collection) includes city street maps The Destruction in Port-Au-Prince (New York Times) Haiti Earthquake – Maps (AlertNet) Haiti Earthquake – Maps (Army Geospatial Center) Haiti Earthquake – Maps (ReliefWeb) maps from many international organizations Haiti Earthquake – Maps (SERTIT Rapid Mapping Service) …
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UPDATE: A colleague from within asked us to highlight this quote with the observation that neither the US IC nor DoD have any clue how to execute. We agree. Both lack leadership with vision and multinational panache; they simply do not know what they do not know because they have both wasted the last 21 …
Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? (Wall Street Journal) By BRET STEPHENS JANUARY 12, 2010 Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies of Detroit. Though billed by National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a bombshell in its own right, the memo reads more like the …
The QDR slides got me thinking about the fact that DIA could be a really first rate intelligence agency and an effective counter to ODNI and CIA for the SecDef, JCS, and the military services, especially field commanders. Although badly executed, DIA has two vitally important missions: support to military operations; and support to military …
Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. The use of citizen-science networks often allows scientists to accomplish research objectives more …
