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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
For all the screaming mimis . . . this is how it works in a REAL police state.
From ABC: Americans by nearly a 2-1 ratio call the surveillance of telephone records an acceptable way for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, expressing broad unconcern even if their own calling patterns are scrutinized. Lending support to the administration’s defense of its anti-terrorism intelligence efforts, 63 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post…
Scary piece on NSA’s supposed evils in USA Today this morning. Will have a more thorough treatment up later today, but in the mean time, allow me to do my bit for the environment and recycle another post that should provide some insights and balance out the hype. Moring coverage from Michelle Malkin, Strata-Sphere, OTB,…
Who here ever heard of DOCEX prior to the release of the West Point report? Prior to the IDA study? Prior to Steve Hayes writing about it throughout last year? That’s what I thought. You couldn’t hold a gun to anyone’s head and get them to acknowledge the mission because it was the under-appreciated scut…
I swear, if I read one more story about sinking morale in the CIA due to the “supremacy” of the DNI, I’m going to . . . blog some more! People I know on the inside are cautiously optimistic. They’ve never wavered in their motivation towards the job, but they are all candidates for medication…
(H/T to Guy Kawasaki) Some refreshing comments from the business world on how not to do things. “Escape from Cubicle Nation” – doesn’t get much better than that. Could be used in individual agency management, or reform writ large, if anyone cares to listen. Of course take out all the references to “money” and “profit”…
Likely to be lost in the FLAILCON 2 environment surrounding the nomination of Gen Hayden for DCIA: U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte this week announced the appointment of a new chancellor for the National Intelligence University. Carson K. Eoyang’s started work May 1, said a statement Monday from the office of the director of national…
Prize-winner Dana Priest points out what some expect Hayden’s strategy to be: Former and current intelligence officers say Goss never had a strategic plan for improving spying on terrorist networks. [former DDO Stephen] Kappes, on the other hand, had slowly begun to put his ideas, gained through 23 years of experience around the world, into…
Most reports on intel reform over the last few days center on the perceived ills that face the CIA if a military man takes charge. I’ve already pointed out that the DCIA doesn’t report to the SECDEF and with four stars Hayden doesn’t owe Rumsfeld anything except the time of day. Just as he was…
I’m obliged for a number of unrelated reasons to like many of the people behind the voices that are coming out against Gen Hayden for DCIA. I’m obliged to like them, but I’m not obliged to avoid criticizing them when due. The laundry list grows by the day, but for the life of me I…
In this OODAcast we provide insights into Zero Trust architectures from an experienced practitioner, Junaid Islam. Junaid is a senior partner at OODA. He has over 30 years of experience in secure communications and the design and operations of highly functional enterprise architectures. He founded Bivio Networks, maker of the first gigabyte speed general purpose…
Bryson Bort is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy. He is widely known in the cybersecurity community for helping advance concepts of defense across multiple critical domains. He is the co-founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control…
Trond Undheim is a futurist, investor, consultant, executive, speaker, entrepreneur and podcaster. He produces widely impactful podcasts: Futurized, which tracks the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment, and Augmented, which reveals stories behind the new era of industrial operations.
Jeremy King is a trusted advisor to corporate boards and some of the nation’s most elite business leaders. He is also a serial connector helping move business information on opportunities at the intersection of talent, capital, entrepreneurs and business development. Jeremy is an entrepreneur himself, creating successful executive search firms and also a game-changing non-profit…
Ben Ford is the founder of Commando Development, a firm which leverages his deep background and experience in enterprise IT as well as his years in service as a Royal Marine to the benefit of technology teams in startups and large enterprises. In this OODAcast we discuss Ben’s views on the history of Commando’s, from…
OODA CEO Matt Devost has a track record of executing on innovation via entrepreneurship. You may also know him as the Co-Host of the OODAcast or perhaps through his role as a technologist and international security expert. He has extensive past performance in cybersecurity, counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, and risk management issues.
Security, Risk Management and Intelligence professionals all know of Jim Clapper, this week’s OODAcast guest. He had a long and distinguished career in the US Air Force, which included leadership spanning the Vietnam era all the way to the end of the Cold War. By the time he retired he was a three star General,…
In this week’s OODAcast we interview Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. Ray is a great leader, evidenced by the people he has attracted to his firm. I know many of his team and can say for a fact that they are people who can do just about anything they want (which means they are…
Lisa J. Porter has successfully lead some of the world’s largest and most critical technology efforts. Her career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees, a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford. She would later lecture at MIT and…
Nate Fick’s career has been eclectic, but with a common element of demonstrating superior leadership abilities in a diverse array of successful opportunities. Nate is currently a General Manager at Elastic, having joined the firm with their acquisition of Endgame where he served as CEO.
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence