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Nuclear/Climate Change: CLOSED 17 May 2011

ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update 16 May 2011 ALL:  Study: Seaports unready for climate change CANADA:  Climate change threatens arctic coastlines CHINA:  China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution EUROPE-SPAIN:  Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate GERMANY-JAPAN-USA:  Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables INDIA:  Manmohan Singh takes stock of country’s …

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Advanced Cyber/IO: Knowledge Integration

Phi Beta Iota: It has become evident that this integrative post is needed.  It should be obvious–but evidently it is not–that both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) are inherently integrating by nature.  Both are the anti-thesis to “Rule by Secrecy” and the Weberian concept of stove-piped …

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Secrecy News: ODNI Tools for Data Fusion & Analysis

ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …

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US Intelligence: Militarized to Lowest Common Denominator

Phi Beta Iota: Posted with permission.  We strongly recommend the Intelligence Online offerings.  We have received a number of commentaries around this topic, and they boil down to the situation being much, much worse than depicted here: 1.  Budget weenies without substantive experience running entire agencies (e.g. NRO) 2.  Nose-dive to the lowest common denominator, …

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U.S. Intelligence Community as Land of Make Believe

To the Editor: The Intelligence Community Group at LinkedIn is full of smart folks whose thinking either supports or complements the long-standing views of the Phi Beta Iota collective.  Specifically, there is a general feeling that the U.S. Intelligence System is really morally and systematically broken.  RW The U.S. Intelligence Community as the Land of …

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