2011 Open Source Agency: Executive Access Point
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This is the Cabinet and Congressional-level access point for staff on the Open Source Agency.
There is no other initiative in play that can simultaneously change the face of the city, the nature of government, and the resilience of the Republic.
Five people have been fighting for this for 20 years.
If the US Government continues to lack intelligence and integrity on this point, there is every reason for the United Nations to create this Open Source Agency as a service of global concern, nurturing all of the opens and in the process creating a public intelligence tsunami that will have a very positive effect on national governments that are otherwise intent on serving special interests instead of the public interest. It would be amusing as well as constructive to engage Saudi Arabia and China as allies in acquiring the South-Central Complex, but there is also an excellent completely vacant plot of land adjacent to 1 UN Plaza in NYC, on the river, as well as immediately across the river via the 34th Street Ferry.
Short persistent URL is: http://tinyurl.com/OSA2011
Smart Nation Act (Simplified) 4.1
Open Source Agency Synopsis 05E
Graphic: Open Source Agency Broad Concept
Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale
Department of State Et Al Real Estate – Printable Single Slide 2.0
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Two-paragraph version as sent four times (and blocked four times) to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
An Open Source Agency funded at $125 million for a first year, going toward $2 billion at at full funding, has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget senior staff, with one requirement: that the Secretary of State ask for it. A single letter from the Secretary of State to OMB will yield $25 million in end of year money, and a new presidential initiative at $125 million from 1 October 201N. The OSA will over time help justify the redirection of up to $100 billion from Program 50 (Military) to Program 150 (International Affairs).
First recognized as a need in 1969, prominently addressed by the Aspin-Brown Commission, the WMD Commission, and various other studies, the Open Source Agency appears on pages 23 and 423 of the 9/11 Commission report, as a proposed secret agency, which is completely contradictory to the need and the reality that the secret world cannot do open source with integrity. OMB agrees that the Open Source Agency should be a sister agency of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), both under the arms-reach auspices of the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Stated in relation to the President’s needs at this time, the Open Source Agency would enable the Secretary of State to contribute immediately and forcefully to Open Government, Citizen Engagement, Participatory Budgeting, Global Engagement, and more tangibly, to a national jobs retraining program for all those unemployed who need to retrain for the Information Era jobs market. A one-page draft legislative outline and a two-page synopsis are below, along with two graphics.
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2012 PREPRINT: The Craft of Intelligence [Full Text Online]
2012 PREPRINT Foreword to NATO Book on Public Intelligence for Public Health
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Graphic: Multi-Level Technical Approach to Intelligence 21
ARCHIVES
INTEGRITY and Open Source Philosophy
Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust (Paper) (Kindle) (List)
Quick Look (Graphics):
* Joe Markowitz and Robert Steele have briefed OMB, and OMB agrees, that the OSA should be under the Department of State, or failing that, under another non-intelligence Cabinet-level authority. While the Department of Commerce and the General Services Administration (as well as OMB itself) are possibilities, the legislative outline continues to focus on the Department of State as the parent and host. The addition of the OSA to pages 23 and 423 of the 9-11 Commission Report was a hard-fought victory for the one CIA SES with ethics present, but was corrupted in its association with CIA and the secret world by the others present, who knew/know nothing of open source (they call it “open sores”).
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The OSA will NOT be under the secret world, but it WILL provide the secret world with real-time feed of all raw open sources and all finished open source intelligence on a “first among equals” basis. By being outside the secret world, it will be able to provide shareable decision support to Whole of Government, Stabilization & Reconstruction, state & local, and multinational, multiagency, multidisciplinary, multidomain information-sharing & sense-making (M4IS2).
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Graphic: 9-11 Commission Open Source Agency
Graphic: Four Forces After Next with IO
Graphic: Four National Reforms
Graphic: Four Quadrants J-2 High Cell SMS Low
Graphic: Full Spectrum Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
Graphic: Holistic Analytics for Nuclear-Climate
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Graphic: Information Pathologies
Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale
Graphic: Jim Bamford on the Human Brain
Graphic: Medard Gabel’s Cost of Peace versus War
Graphic: One Vision for the Future of Microsoft
Graphic: Open Source Agency Clients & Commanders
Graphic: Open Source Agency Broad Organization
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Graphic: OSINT Global Pyramid from OSIS-X to Intelink-X
Graphic: OSINT, Missions, & Disciplines
Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept
Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence
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Graphic: Tony Zinni on 4% “At Best”
Congressional Legislation in Draft:
Smart Nation Act (Simplified 4.1 2011/9
Smart Nation-Safe Nation Act of 2009
2007-04-19 Congressional Staff Q&A
Smart Nation Act of 2004 Draft 1.3
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Office of Management and Budget Documents (Formal):
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Open Source Agency Synopsis 05E Two Pages
ON INTELLIGENCE: Open Letter to the President
Memorandum: Talking Points on Intelligence Reform
Memorandum: Talking Points on Homeland Defense Intelligence
Office of Management and Budget Documents (Informal):
2007-04-19 OMB Issue Paper Final (by Don Gessaman)
Memorandum: OSS CEO to DNI One-Pager
Memorandum: Creating a New Agency with a New Mission, New Methods, and a New Mind Set
Memorandum: $2 Billion Obligation Plan Centered on Defense, for a New Open Source Agency
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2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
Presidential and Congressional Commission Findings:
Graphic: 9-11 Commission Open Source Agency
Aspin-Brown Commission: “severely deficient,” should be “top priority” for funding and for DCI attention.
Open Source Burundi Exercise [results of Aspin-Brown, staff attempt to squelch, repeal, final findings]
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DoD Prepared Briefings
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
Reviews of Books by Others:
Review: Open Source Intelligence in a Networked World
Review: No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
Review (Guest): No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
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Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
Major Published Articles (see OSA III for minor ones):
2009 Homeland Security Today: Vet with a Vision
2006 Forbes Blank Slate On Intelligence
2002 TIME Magazine The New Craft of Intelligence
1995 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information
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Seminal Substantive Articles or Chapters
2010 Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time
2010 Fixing the White House and National Intelligence
2009 Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else
2009 Perhaps We Should Have Shouted: A Twenty-Year Restrospective
2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action
2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic)
2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational)
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Open Government and Democracy Context:
Memoranda: Four Reforms for Public Consideration
Memoranda: Policy-Budget Outreach Tool
My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence
Campaign for Liberty: Steele on IC and DoD
Future of Multinational Intelligence & Operations
Robert Steele: Open Source Strategies for Enterprises and Nations
Seven Promises to America–Who Will Do This?
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Operational Examples of Excellence:
2011 OSINT Discovery Toolkit–Reuser’s Repertorium
2000-2002 NATO OSINT Handbooks
Historic Contributions by Multinational Individuals:
Historic Contributions Directory (List)
Analytic Toolkit in the Cloud
Books on the Larger Context:
2012 THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest
2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time
2003 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future
2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political
2000 ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World
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Complete Historical Archive (Reverse Chronological Order):
Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) III
Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) II
Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) I
The Failure of 20th Century Intelligence:
2002 FAILURE of 20th Century Intelligence
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About Robert Steele, Primary Proponent for OSINT in support of Whole of Government and and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2):
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert David STEELE Vivas
See Also:
21st Century Intelligence Core References 2007-2013
