Stephen E. Arnold: Bottlenose — Hype without Limit?

Bottlenose: Not a Dolphin, Another Intelligence Vendor EXTRACT The reality of many commercial services, which may or may not apply to Bottlenose, is that: The systems use information on RSS feeds, the public information available from Twitter and Facebook, and changes to Web pages. These systems do not and cannot due to the cost  perform …

Mini-Me: State of USG IO Thinking

U_8th Annual SMA Conference 2014 Final-1 Panel 2, Damron–Big_Data_Open_Source_EUCOM Panel 5, IARPA OSI brief Oct 2014 Panel 5, Neuro Big Data GIORDANO final OCT 2014 Final Survey Results The Other Stuff (Less Noteworthy)

Review: Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization

Edited by Michael Miklancic and Jacqueline Brewer 4.0 out of 5 stars First Class on the Illicit Networks Not Legalized by US Congress, December 15, 2014 This is a first-class book on the convergence of many illicit networks that Congress has not legalized. A sure sign of the book’s very high value and inherent quality …

Patrick Meier: MicroMappers – Toward Next Generation Humanitarian Technology

MicroMappers: Towards Next Generation Humanitarian Technology The MicroMappers platform has come a long way and still has a ways to go. Our vision for MicroMappers is simple: combine human computing (smart crowd-sourcing) with machine computing (artificial intelligence) to filter, fuse and map a variety of different data types such as text, photo, video and satellite/aerial imagery. To do this, …

Owl: Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton 2016 — Two Crime Families Fight for Scraps?

Oh, going to do it, no doubt about it. It’s going to be him against Hillary.  2 crime families fighting it out. Inevitable. Jeb Bush sending signals that he may be getting ready for 2016 presidential run “Jeb Bush and his emissaries are sending increasingly strong signals that the former Florida governor is gearing up …