OSS to Lockheed: First Catch the Rabbit
Washington, D.C., March 18/PRNEWSWIRE/ -- Robert David STEELE Vivas, international proponent for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) congratulates Lockheed Martin on its very expensive, very high-tech new Knowledge Creation Lab in Herndon.
“Once again, the major beltway bandits are emphasizing very expensive US citizen “butts in seats” and very expensive high technology integration, without the slightest attention to first figuring out where all the information is going to be coming from, in what language, in what format, in what volume, and with what periodicity and authenticated provenance.
“The Knowledge Creation Lab is nothing more than a mirror to the OpenSourceCenter at the Central Intelligence Agency—both of these organizations have no clue how to harness the distributed multi-lingual multi-cultural intelligence of the Whole Earth.
“Were Lockheed tuned in to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), which includes Foreign Media Monitoring (OSS also maps the total information space at the tribal-neighborhood level in all languages), it would understand that OSINT is a bottom-up process that demands real people with real skills all over the world; a portal system for receiving all information in all languages all the time, and a mix of small and medium sized capabilities that include machine translation, online dictionaries on demand in 185 languages, and advanced statistical, pattern, and anomaly analysis.
“By the way, does Bright Planet do federated search across the deep web?
“We are unimpressed. As we told the National Research Council in 1994 when they were reviewing the U.S. Army’s multi-billion dollar C4I program plan, if you assume the bits are ‘given’, you will be creating knowledge based on the 10% that comes easily.
“Information Operations (IO) consists of Information Warfare (IW) and Information Peacekeeping (IP). The new semantics of war and peace, wealth and democracy, are playing out right now, at the neighborhood level in all languages. World War III is about the hearts and minds of teen-agers. It is about coming to grips with what distributed humanity knows, thinks, feels, and loves; and then using IO to achieve favorable outcomes. There isn’t a beltway bandit around that understands that reality.
“Small companies provide innovation and stretch the government dollar.
“See the Lockheed press release at
“View an IO briefing at and learn about OSINT at
SOURCE: OSS.NET, Inc.
-0- 03/24/2006 /CONTACT: Robert Steele 703.266.6390
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