Three and a half years
Great blog entry from December 6, 2006
http://limnthis.typepad.com/limn_this/2006/12/three_and_a_hal.html
Here’s a quick excerpt…
After three and a half years I’m still new to the world of defense contracting but there is something about it that is bugging me, really bugging me…
We entered the Second World War in December 1941 and finished it in August 1945, or after just a […]
Interview with Michael E. Krieger, Director of Information Policy, Office of the Department of Defense
http://www.cio.com/article/143604/Data_Strategy_at_the_Department_of_Defense
BIO
Interview with Michael E. Krieger, Director of Information Policy, Office of the Department of Defense
As Director of Information Policy for the Department of Defense, Michael E. Krieger assists the CIO in managing, directing, executing, overseeing and implementing all facets of information policy across the DOD. He is responsible for providing policy, guidance, and direction […]
The new nationalization, debt as a weapon
Interesting article in the New York Times about foreign investments being used as a weapon.
Now, with sovereign wealth funds, many experts are asking whether cross-border investment is evolving into cross-border nationalization, raising the prospect of government interference in free markets, only this time, in other countries’ markets.
Interview with Dennis Wisnosky-Moving the DoD from “as is” to “to be”
NOTE: This article originally appeared in CIO.com
I recently spoke with Dennis Wisnosky about the process of moving the world’s largest business from “as-is” to a “to-be” state. Wisnoksy is chief technical officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area (BMA) within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business […]
Changing balance of power
Jamais Cascio talks about open source war and talks about the shifting balance of power. If an insurgency can delay the plans of a nation state, what does that do to the balance of power?
Conversely, the first group that cracks this problem has the potential to leapfrog the others in assuming the role of […]
Interview with Dr. Margaret Myers - SOAs enable collaboration within the Department of Defense
This interview was first published on CSOonline.com
Dr. Myers is the Principal Director for the Department of Defense (DoD) Deputy Chief Information Officer. In this role, her primary focus is on leading the Information Age transformation for the Department by enabling net-centric warfighting and operations.
Her prior positions include Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer; Acting […]
Innovation Happens Elsewhere - open source as a business strategy
I really don’t know where these entries about open source and insurgency are going to go. Most of the time, I doubt if I’ll have a well formulated beginning middle or end to any of this content. If you’re not patient, don’t read this.
Thinking about Brave New War, I grabbed a copy of Innovation Happens […]
Brave New War
I just read an excerpt from The Brave New War, a new book by John Robb of Global Guerrillas. I intend to buy this book. Based on the 11 page excerpt, it appears Robb has examined the GWOT from an open-source perspective.
“We have entered the age of the faceless, agile enemy. From London to Madrid […]
Bottom line
Our adversary is already networked. We cannot patch stovepipes together in a world in which information demands are abundant, time lines are shrinking and partners cannot be predicted. Our current “network” is made up of information silos that cannot talk to each other unless engineered to do so, cannot scale to the levels of interaction […]
Exploring the netcentric vision
Over the past few years, the DOD has made huge strides to transform the link between business, technology and military operations. The DOD is doing more than just inserting technology into the battlefield, they are rethinking and transforming from a traditional hierarchical command structure to an edge organization with new approaches for command and control.
The […]