National Open Source Enterprise

June 17, 2009 in Office of the Director of National Intelligence

This Intelligence Community (IC) Directive (ICD) establishes Director of National Intelligence (DNI) policy and specifies responsibilities for the oversight, management, and implementation of IC open source activities . This ICD recognizes and establishes the roles and responsibilities of the Assistant Deputy DNI for Open Source (ADDNI/OS), the DNI Open Source Center (the Center). and the IC to ensure efficient and effective use of open source information and analysis.

2009 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Leadership Chart

June 16, 2009 in Open Source Center

The structure of this chart is primarily taken from a reference pamphlet published by the South Korean Ministry of Unification in January 2009, which appears to be based on the DPRK constitution. As such, this chart is a representation of the formal relationships between the various entities and does not necessarily reflect the actual hierarchy and power relationships in the North Korean system. Other sources include: DPRK, ROK, PRC, and Japanese media; the ROK National Intelligence Service website; the Ministry of Unification’s Key Figures of North Korea 2009; and Japan’s Radiopress North Korea Directory 2008.

Priscilla E. Guthrie

June 13, 2009 in People

In late May of 2009, Ms. Guthrie began work at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as Associate Director of National Intelligence and Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (CIO). Guthrie, a former Deputy CIO at the Department of Defense, will help lead the Intelligence Community’s (IC) strategy to strengthen sharing, integration and management of information across 16 intelligence agencies.

The Agenda and Political Techniques of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

June 12, 2009 in Documents

For over three decades the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been an effective lobby within Congress to ensure that Israel remains strong militarily and economically, and endures as a national homeland for Jews. While acknowledging its effectiveness, AIPAC critics maintain that AIPAC is an ex-officio arm of the Israeli government which shamelessly manipulates the political process whenever it decides that there is a perceived threat to Israel’s interests. This paper will examine AIPAC’s origins, its structure and agenda. and its lobbying techniques to better understand why AIPAC is considered by many to be the most influential Congressional lobby.

James L. Dimon

June 10, 2009 in People

James L. “Jamie” Dimon was born in New York City, where he would attend Browning School, to Theodore and Themis Dimon. His grandfather, a Greek immigrant from Turkey, was a broker and passed on his knowledge of the business to his son and partner, Theodore. They worked together for 19 years, and Jamie held summer jobs at their New York office. Mr. Dimon majored in psychology and economics at Tufts University, before earning an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School. Upon his graduation in 1982, Sandy Weill convinced him to turn down offers from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to join him as an assistant at American Express.

Norman R. Augustine

June 10, 2009 in People

Mr. Augustine serves on the boards of many corporate, educational, philanthropic, and cultural organizations. He serves as member or chair of advisory committees and councils for numerous educational and research institutions, and for government agencies such as the White House, U.S. Senate, NASA, FAA, and the Departments of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, Energy, and Transportation, the General Accounting Office, and NATO. He has received numerous awards, including the Department of Defense’s highest civilian decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal.

Jefferey P. Bezos

June 9, 2009 in People

Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way and setting up the original company in his garage. His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs. Mr. Bezos has been listed in the Forbes list of the richest people in the world for several years, ranking 68th as of 2009. He is also ranked as the 33rd richest person in America.

Frank C. Carlucci

June 9, 2009 in People

Frank Charles Carlucci III was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on October 18, 1930. After graduation from Princeton University in 1952, he served two years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. In 1956 after study at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a short stint in private business, Carlucci joined the Department of State as a foreign service officer.

Sidney Harman

June 6, 2009 in People

Sidney Harman was born in 1919. He attended Baruch College of the City University of New York, graduating in 1939. In 1953, Harman and Bernard Kardon founded Harman/Kardon, Inc. Both Harman and Kardon were engineers by training and had worked at the Bogen Company, which was then the top manufacturer of public address systems. Their collaboration helped to create the high-fidelity audio industry. As early as 1954, the company simplified access to high-fidelity sound for the non technical consumer with the introduction of the world’s first true hi-fi receiver, the Festival D1000. This product incorporated a tuner, control unit and power amplifier in a single chassis. Four years later, Harman Kardon presented the world’s first stereo receiver.

Avian Influenza Pandemic May Expand the Military Role in Disaster Relief

June 6, 2009 in U.S. Army

Recent involvement by the U.S. military with hurricane relief and comments by the President on expanding the DOD’s role in disaster relief indicates increased missions for an already stretched military. The next national disaster facing the U.S. could be an influenza pandemic. The bird flu virus H5N1 currently threatening Asia and Europe can potentially mutate into a deadly human influenza pandemic with global consequences. The last major flu pandemic in 1918 killed 50 million people worldwide and 600,000 in the U.S. alone. The United States is not prepared for a human pandemic and the military will have a significant role in any national response. While some departmental level planning has been accomplished recently, interdepartmental coordination and clear identification of the lead federal agency is still lacking. This project explains possible effects of a pandemic on the U.S. and current responsibilities of federal departments involved in disaster relief. Analysis is presented on the evolving role the DOD plays should this event become reality and finally recommends preparations that should be accomplished to prepare the nation for this very real threat. An ad-hoc approach to a pandemic will have severe negative and far reaching affects on our nation and must be avoided.

Gregory L. Garcia

June 5, 2009 in People

Gregory L. Garcia entered federal civil service in 1984 as an inventory management trainee at the San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Kelly AFB, Texas. He served in a variety of assignments at the Air Logistics Center, ultimately becoming chief of the Mechanical Systems Branch, C-5 System Program Office. Garcia also served as a policy analyst in the Maintenance Management Division at Headquarters U.S. Air Force. Returning to San Antonio, he held several positions within the Air Logistics Center and the Cryptologic Systems Group, an Electronic Systems Center geographically separated unit. Garcia has served as the director of information assurance at the CPSG and executive director of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. He received his bachelor’s degree in communication arts from Texas Lutheran University in 1984. In 1992, he earned a master’s degree in business administration from Incarnate Word University. He later attended Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Princeton University where he earned a master’s degree in public policy.

754th Electronic Systems Group

June 5, 2009 in Military

The 754th Electronic Systems Group “provides responsive information systems to support more efficient and effective logistics, contracting and comm-computer capabilities Air Force wide.” It also “sustains comm-computer capabilities for Unified Commands services and specified DoD and non-DoD organizations.” A promotional guide produced by the 754th ELSG describes their functions as providing and suporting “secure combat information systems and networks that increase the capabilities of our commanders and leaders of the United States Air Force (USAF), the Department of Defense and other Federal Government Agencies. Our mission is to deliver information driving war-winning decisions by shaping, acquiring, and sustaining warfighting IT capabilities through responsive, adaptive and cost-effective logistics, enterprise services, and infrastructure solutions – to fly and fight in Air, Space and Cyberspace.”

Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, and Cyberwar

June 2, 2009 in Congressional Research Service

This report describes the emerging areas of information operations, electronic warfare, and cyberwar in the context of U.S. national security. It also suggests related policy issues of potential interest to Congress. For military planners, the control of information is critical to military success, and communications networks and computers are of vital operational importance. The use of technology to both control and disrupt the flow of information has been generally referred to by several names: information warfare, electronic warfare, cyberwar, netwar, and Information Operations (IO). Currently, IO activities are grouped by the Department of Defense (DOD) into five core capabilities: (1) Psychological Operations, (2) Military Deception, (3) Operational Security, (4) Computer Network Operations, and (5) Electronic Warfare. Current U.S. military doctrine for IO now places increased emphasis on Psychological Operations, Computer Network Operations, and Electronic Warfare, which includes use of non-kinetic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons, and nonlethal weapons for crowd control. However, as high technology is increasingly incorporated into military functions, the boundaries between all five IO core capabilities are becoming blurred.

Carla A. Hills

May 30, 2009 in People

Ms. Hills is chairman and chief executive officer of Hills & Company, an international consulting firm providing advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade, and risk assessment issues abroad, particularly in emerging market economies. As U.S. trade representative from 1989 to 1993, she was the President’s principal adviser on international trade policy as well as the nation’s chief trade negotiator, representing American interests in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations throughout the world. Ms. Hills is actively involved with a number of organizations, serving as chair of the Inter American Dialogue and of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, co-chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, member of the Executive Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and of the Trilateral Commission, and member of the board of the International Crisis Group, among others. She is based in Washington, DC.

David A. Kriegman

May 30, 2009 in People

David A. Kriegman is the former President of Command Information, a company which describes itself as the “the largest pure-play IPv6 Solutions provider in America, offering strategic and tactical solutions for Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations seeking to move to the fast-emerging new version of Internet protocol.” Prior to holding this position he was with SRA International for 23 years and held various senior leadership positions in the company, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, where he oversaw all of SRA’s businesses, projects, and contracts with government and industry clients. Mr. Kriegman also served as senior vice president and director of SRA’s Defense Sector, and deputy director of SRA’s Software Development Group, responsible for software practitioners and software processes.

Dennis P. Lockhart

May 29, 2009 in People

Dennis P. Lockhart took office March 1, 2007, as the 14th president and chief executive officer of the Sixth District Federal Reserve Bank, at Atlanta. In 2009, he serves as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Mr. Lockhart was born on February 1, 1947, in Bakersfield, California. He earned a B.A. in political science and economics from Stanford University in 1968 and an M.A. in international economics and American foreign policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1971. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1968 to 1974.

Thomas S. Moorman, Jr.

May 29, 2009 in People

Thomas S. Moorman, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. He was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program as a distinguished military graduate in 1962. Mr. Moorman has served in a variety of intelligence and reconnaissance related positions within the United States and worldwide. While stationed at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., in 1982, he became deeply involved in the planning and organizing for the establishment of Air Force Space Command. During his Pentagon tour in 1987, he also provided program management direction for development and procurement of Air Force surveillance, communications, navigation and weather satellites, space launch vehicles, anti-satellite weapons and ground-based and airborne strategic radars, communications and command centers. He additionally represented the Air Force in the Strategic Defense Initiative program and was authorized to accept SDI program execution responsibilities on behalf of the Air Force.

John P. Morgridge

May 29, 2009 in People

Mr. Morgan is Chairman Emeritus of Cisco Systems, Inc. Morgridge joined Cisco in 1988 as President and CEO, and grew the company from $5 million to more than $1 billion in sales and from 34 to more than 2,250 employees. In1990 he took Cisco public, in 1995 was appointed chairman, and in November 2006 became chairman emeritus. He teaches management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and serves on its School of Business Advisory Council. In 1996, he received Stanford’s Arbuckle Award for excellence in management leadership. Prior to Cisco, Morgridge was president and COO of GRiD Systems, and before that he held senior positions with Stratus Computer and Honeywell Information Systems. Morgridge and his wife Tashia actively support a range of education, conservation, and human services initiatives.

H. Ross Perot, Jr.

May 29, 2009 in People

Ross Perot, Jr. was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from St. Mark’s School of Texas in 1977. After Mr. Perot graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, he completed the first flight around the world in a helicopter. He joined the United States Air Force in 1983, completing pilot training in 1984. He completed more than eight years of service with the Air Force. He was elected chairman of the board of Perot Systems Corporation in September 2004. Prior to that, he served as president and chief executive officer of Perot Systems since August 2000. Mr. Perot has been an active member of the Perot Systems Board of Directors since the company’s founding in 1988.

GeoEye

May 28, 2009 in Corporations

GeoEye, Inc. (GeoEye) is a provider of imagery, imagery information products and image processing services. The Company provides its products and services to the United States government, including the national security community, international customers, and North American commercial customers. The Company sells two types of products to its customers: basic imagery and imagery information products. [...]

Brian O’Toole

May 28, 2009 in People

Chief Technology Officer, GeoEye, Inc.1
Former Vice-President of Product Management, Overwatch Textron Systems2

Biography
Mr. O’Toole joined GeoEye in August 2008 as Chief Technology Officer. He has global responsibility for developing, managing and expanding GeoEye’s technology, products and solutions in geospatial intelligence and location-based services. He will lead the Company’s strategic efforts to identify and develop new geospatial [...]

William L. Warren

May 28, 2009 in People

Mr. Warren joined GeoEye in January 2004 as General Counsel. He is responsible for all corporate legal guidance and counseling, contracts management, and human resource functions. Before coming to GeoEye, Mr. Warren practiced law in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., offices of the international law firm Latham & Watkins, LLP, for several years. Prior to that, Mr. Warren was an associate in the New York office of Baker Botts, L.L.P. Mr. Warren’s legal expertise is in general corporate law, including securities compliance and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he specializes in intellectual property and employment law for high-tech clients in such areas as telecommunications and satellite technologies, as well as commercial-litigation management.

William Schuster

May 28, 2009 in People

Mr. Schuster joined GeoEye in December 2004 as Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the overall management and direction of information technology, operations, international business, North American and government sales, engineering, customer service, order management, facilities and security, product development and management, quality assurance, and business processes. He has over 28 years of experience [...]

Matthew M. O’Connell

May 28, 2009 in People

Mr. O’Connell has over 20 years of experience in communications management and finance. He came to the commercial remote sensing industry in 2001 as CEO of GeoEye’s predecessor, ORBIMAGE. In January 2006, Orbimage merged with Space Imaging to form GeoEye, Inc. In 2008, GeoEye was selected by the Washington Business Journal as number four of [...]

William W. Sprague

May 28, 2009 in People

William W. Sprague has been a member of the Board since 1997. He currently serves as a Managing Director at Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc., where he manages the investment banking division.
From January 2000 to April 2004, Mr. Sprague [...]