Tag Archives: Intelligence

The 1-1-1 map

I live in a part of New York that is sometimes called Manhattan Valley. You wouldn’t know why until seeing this snapshot from Google Earth. Though almost all of lower Manhattan now has skinned buildings, my area does not. It’s ironic, since the building across the street (at 100th and Broadway), which shows as a [...]
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[OSI] Beyond Simple Search

Sorry, this last set of notes on a breakout session at the open source conference somehow ended up stuck on my laptop. Moderator Eric Haseltine started us out with the premise: “Search is great, but sometimes it sucks.” As always, this is a highly filtered, non-transcript-level set of reflections. Presenters: * John Howard, Deputy Associate [...]
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[OSI] Knowledge Management

Presenters: * Dr. Mike Wertheimer, Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence * G. Clayton Grigg, Chief Knowledge Officer, FBI * Jeffrey R. Cooper, Chief Innovation Officer, SAIC * Ed Waltz, Chief Scientist, BAE Systems * Moderator: Thomas Sanderson, Deputy Director of the Transnational Threats Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies [...]
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[OSI] Academic Outreach

I’m continuing to only blog the breakout sessions. At least one of the cameras at the plenaries (I counted eight at the last one) belong to C-SPAN (they’ve been broadcasting the sessions it over the last couple of days) and it’s possible to stream a few of those recordings from their website. They are recording [...]
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[OSI] Media as the Open Source

Had really wanted to attend the Open Source 101 training they had available–would have made the conference much more valuable to me–and so I requested it when I sent them my information. I was denied, and I tried to wrangle my way in, but to no avail. Instead, I went to this session, with the [...]
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[OSI] Technology: Improving the Use of Open Sources

Presenters (from the Session blurb): * Steve Selwyn, Deputy Associate Director of Transformation, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence * Joe Markowitz, Independent Scholar * Brian Kettler, ISX Lab Chief Scientist and Principal Research Engineer, Lockheed martin Advanced Technology Labs * Troy M. Pearsall, Executive Vice president of [...]
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[OSI] Hidden in plain view

I am down in Washington for a couple of days for a conference on open source intelligence organized by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. I suppose I should mention why I’m here, before moving on to some conference blogging. I’ve been interested in intelligence, and particularly open source intelligence, since I was [...]
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