Steven Aftergood : JASON on Open Sources — 25 Years Late

CROWD-SOURCING THE TREATY VERIFICATION PROBLEM “Never before has so much information and analysis been so widely and openly available. The opportunities for addressing future [treaty] monitoring challenges include the ability to track activity, materials and components in far more detail than previously, both for purposes of treaty verification and to counter WMD proliferation,” according to …

Yoda: US Congress Goes Open Source

House gets green light for open source The House of Representatives has officially jumped on the open source bandwagon. A June 25 announcement declared that U.S. representatives, committees and staff would be able to procure open source software, participate in open source software communities and contribute code developed with taxpayer dollars to open source repositories.

Yoda: Open Source Everything Wiki

Rise, you will. Below is the first announcement of an Open Source Everything wiki facilitating easy comprehensive documentation and outreach across the nine major open sub-categories listed below. 1. Open Data   .   2. Open Governance   .   3. Open Health   .   4. Open Infrastructures   .   5. Open Intelligence   .   6. Open Manufacturing   .   7. Open Provisioning   …

Robert Steele: Open Source Intelligence 101 (Intelligence Tradecraft in the Third Millennium)

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert David Steele To appear in Intelligence Tradecraft for the Third Millennium (Romania) DOC (7 Pages): Open Source Intelligence 1.3 Intelligence is the art and science of evidence-based decision-support. Intelligence is not defined by its inputs (spies, secrecy, money, risk) but rather by its outputs – tailored actionable decision-support. In this …