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February 27, 2005
Spy blogs
Unfortunately, the intelligence community has not kept up with the Army. The 15 agencies of the community - ranging from the armed services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - maintain separate portals, separate data, and separate people. The bad guys exploit the gaps, and your safety is on the line. So if all us knuckle-draggers in the Army can use technology to make ourselves better, why can't all the big brains at Langley and Foggy Bottom do the same?
The first step toward reform: Encourage blogging on Intelink. When I Google "Afghanistan blog" on the public Internet, I find 1.1 million entries and tons of useful information. But on Intelink there are no blogs. Imagine if the experts in every intelligence field were turned loose - all that's needed is some cheap software. It's not far-fetched to picture a top-secret CIA blog about al Qaeda, with postings from Navy Intelligence and the FBI, among others. Leave the bureaucratic infighting to the agency heads. Give good analysts good tools, and they'll deliver outstanding results.
Posted by sfisher at 10:17 PM | Comments (0)
February 15, 2005
Immersive Perceptualization
Bring your laptops and eyes and ears and ancillary senses tomorrow for:
Immersive Perceptualization for Exploration, Discovery and Analysis of Extreme Dataspace.
Steve Smith, Los Alamos National Labs, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Tom Caudell, University New Mexico, EE, CE, CS
Paniotis, University New Mexico, EE, Music
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