Stephen E. Arnold: GAO/US Army Bury Palantir — SOCOM Funding a Carcass

GAO DCGS Letter B-412746 A few days ago, I stumbled upon a copy of a letter from the GAO concerning Palantir Technologies dated May 18, 2016. The letter became available to me a few days after the 18th, and the US holiday probably limited circulation of the document. The letter is from the US Government …

Robert Steele: Proposal for a Nordic Interagency Intelligence Conference and Centre (Peace Intelligence Initiative)

Proposal for a Nordic Interagency Intelligence Conference and Centre A Peace Intelligence Initiative Introduction At the conclusion of the recent one-day conference on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) hosted by the Royal Danish Defence College, a Danish military officer stood up and suggested that the time had come for a Nordic interagency working group on OSINT. …

Robert Steele: Washington Post Offers 10 Reasons Hillary Clinton Will Beat Donald Trump — I Counter Each (1 True, 5 False, 4 Half & Half)

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/TrumpX10 Jennifer Rubin, a former lawyer, is a conservative columnist for The Washington Post. Below I take the first line only from her , and offer concise rebuttals in favor of Trump’s winning — with the caveat that if Trump cannot listen and adjust in the next 30 days, Ms. Rubin is in …

Robert Steele: Congressional Research Service Publications on U.S. Defense and U.S. Intelligence

Congressional Research Service Publications on U.S. Defense and U.S. Intelligence Editor In Chief Jan H. Kalvik, Defence and Intelligence Norway together with Mr. David Robert Steele (ex CIA) met in Oslo to discuss establishing a Nordic Intelligence Centre. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) publishes unclassified informational documents for Members of the US Senate and US …

Stephen E. Arnold: Citation Analytics Warmed Over and Still Incompetent

Innovation Is Not Reheated Pizza. Do you remember Eugene Garfield? He was the go to person in the field of citation analysis. The jargon attached to his figuring out how to identify who cited what journal article snagged old school jargon like bibliometrics. Dr. Garfield founded the Institute for Scientific Information. He sold ISI to …