Journal: Google Wave–Good, Bad, & Ugly
Watch the Video (1.3 Hours) Good on Background, Hop in and Out for Screen Shots) Robert Steele’s Notes:
Journal: MILNET Flags Sorting It Out: New Tools Wrestle Mountains of Data Into Usable Intelligence
August 24, 2009 Pg. 11 By Kris Osborn In 2008, U.S. military forces collected 400,000 hours of airborne surveillance video, up from several thousand hours 10 years ago. So the Pentagon is turning to computers to help save, sort and search it all. “The proliferation of unmanned systems across the battlefield is not going to …
Journal: CIA Blows–Blackwater, $5M Bar Bill, and Reprise of Rendition Atrocities
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is more of a laughingstock around the world than most realize. From being called “useful idiots” (tontos utiles) in Latin America to much, much worse in the Middle East, it appears to have become a bloated bureaucracy incapable of achieving anything of positive significance. Intelligence is an inherently governmental function, …
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Journal: Global Information Grid 2.0 and Counting
In an era when changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take three; In an era when all information in all languages all the time is the non-negotiable first step to achieving holistic understanding of the Earth’s system of systems as well as all the chaotic sub-systems; In an era when …
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PACOM Week in Review Ending 2 August 2009
Hot Topics BD: Bangladeshi military not above the law 07/30/09 BT: Royal Address at the Concluding Ceremony of the 3rd Session of … 07/30/09 FJ: Police fork out for 300 pastors 07/27/09 HK: Pulp non-fiction hits Hong Kong 07/27/09 ID: New light on birth of Indonesian Navy 08/02/09 ID: Noordin look-alike reported to police office in Mataram 07/31/09 …
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Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team–A Leadership Fable
Excellent Training Material, See Also the Workbook, July 20, 2009
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: …
