Trip to Maryland
Will be in the Salisbury, MD area for an academic briefing from Wednesday to Sunday if anyone wants to meet. Meal on me.
Warfare Podcasts
Getting the feeling that there is a movement to capitalize on what work is being done in this field by a handful of people (most of them on the right side of this site). This could make sense as a second step in that direction (the first being Mark’s Boyd Symposium or BoydCon07).
I’ve been thinking about booting up a warfare centric podcast for a while. Most of what is out there on the topic isn’t up to par, too stuck in old thinking. This blog cluster should have enough of an audience and a combined network to make it happen. Could make for a fun and potentially interesting pursuit.
As an aside: John tried it once or twice.
Rethinking Boyd I
This is one of those posts that makes the blogosphere worthwhile:
Decentralized decision making via a market mechanism or open source framework. This approach is similar to process “B” detailed above, except that a much wider degree of diversity of outlook/orientation within the contributing components is allowed/desired. The end result is a decision making process where multiple groups make contributions (new optimizations and models). As these contributions are tested against the environment, we will find that most of these contributions will fail. Those few that work are then widely copied/replicated within components. The biggest problem (opportunity?) with this approach is that its direction is emergent and it is not directed by a human being (the commander) .
Technology Proficiency Index
Guaranteed that a large chunk of the NSA wiretap fiasco was driven by people like the incompetent Jane Harman who just didn’t have the technical knowhow to ask questions. Pushing for transparency is great, like the Sunlight Foundation wants to do, but is anyone tracking technology ability? Is there an index of some sort?
Idea: make it a universal index – everyone who wants to takes a test and gets a number – and slap it on your perpetual resume (LinkedIn). Value to an employer increases as the force multiplier does.
Malware + Canadian Health
Critical component of state legitimacy for many nation-states:
The “worm” also spread to Health Canada when infected agency computers tapped into the bigger department’s data network, disabling 543 additional work stations in five of Health Canada’s Ottawa-area offices.