Journal: Defense Research, Science, & Technology

DoD Suppressed Critique of Military Research New DoD Website Fosters Secret Science Phi Beta Iota:Two reports today confirm our grave doubts about the viability of U.S. Departemnt of Defense (DoD) research in general, and Science & Technology (S&T) in particular.  In combination with the known grid-loock and inherent loss of integrity within defense acquisition, these …

Review: The Resilient Earth–Science, Global Warming and the Future of Humanity

Pushes the Re-Set Button on Both Gore and Lomborg October 3, 2009 Doug L. Hoffman and Allen Simmons The more I read, the less I know and the more frustrated I grow with the insanity of academic, government, corporate, and non-governmental stovepipes of knowledge in isolation. Right up front this book, read crossing the Atlantic …

Event: 5 Dec 09 George Mason University, The Conscience Un-Conference

What is this? The Conscience Un-Conference is a one-day “un-conference” co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It will be held on Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 8:30am to 5:30pm at the Museum in Washington, DC. Who should apply for this free …

Event: 9-11 Nov 09 Vancouver CA, Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World (American Society for Information Science and Technology–ASIS)

We’ve done all these conferences for 20 years.  While most organizations tend to repeat the same themes and one also tends to see the same faces as speakers, this particular conference appears to have been especially well-developed and we therefore recommend it.  Pre-Conference Workshops are offered on 6 Nov 09.

2009 Defense Science Board Report on Creating an Assured Joint DoD and Interagency Interoperable Net-Centric Enterprise

See the General Accountability Office (GAO) report on the DoD “grid” of the future as being unaffordable, unachievable, unrealistic in its aspirations, and generally a waste of the taxpayer’s money.  This is a great report, especially for the techno-inclined, and it has exactly one phrase that sums it all up but is not fully appreciated:  …

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, …