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The Shahed Playbook: How Iranian and Russian Drone Production Will Disrupt Modern Warfare

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No weapon is more emblematic of the new chapter of drone warfare than the Shahed, an Iran-designed one-way attack (OWA) drone that fundamentally operates as a cheap, easy-to-assemble cruise missile.…

Boots on the Ground: Open-Source Research in Action for Federal Agencies

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Open-source research improves government services, but is it an exaggeration to say open-data also helps federal agencies save lives? We don’t think so. Just look at the COVID-19 pandemic. In…

File Naming and Data Organization Best Practices: From Clutter and Chaos to Knowledge Management Nirvana

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No one pays much attention to file names until they cause a problem. Perhaps you’ve experienced the frustration and needless busywork caused by a lack of standardized file organization practices.  …

Data Curation Strategy: 3 Essential Elements and Best Practices

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Federal agencies are collecting more data and information than staff can manage. With so much to sift through, it’s sometimes impossible to find the small percentage of data that’s actually…

Data Visualization for Federal Agencies: Data Specialists Bring Your Information to Life

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The novel War and Peace has 587,287 words. If you randomly strung those words together, you wouldn’t end up with one of the best novels of all time. You’d end…

3 Signs You Could Benefit from a Knowledge Management System

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Since our team is frequently called to rescue clients experiencing information overload, we are often asked how a government agency can benefit from a knowledge management system.  Many questions arise…

Disadvantages of Lots of Data

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We live in a grand age of communication. Every day, we have access to an abundance of data and information passing across our screens. Anything we need to know is…

Why Do Knowledge Management Projects Fail? Lack of User Engagement.

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Stories about project success and failure make great reading for project managers. Without enduring the pain, you can see how some projects went off the rails while others didn’t. For…

Metrics of a Successful Knowledge Community

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Effective knowledge management depends on community-building and collaboration: pulling together everyone’s information and experience in a usable format enables each individual to benefit from the shared body of knowledge. At…

How to Make Information Manageable

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It’s no secret organizations and agencies are creating, acquiring, and storing more data than ever before. This data explosion is the new reality for government organizations—in fact, there is even…

Cross-Agency Collaboration: Information Sharing for Combined Success

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Federal agencies working on similar projects or in the same geographic area often find overlap in their missions and requirements. These separate agencies are asking the same questions, writing the…

Building Collaboration Externally

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You are working in the name of the United States government to support and address an initiative on the other side of the globe. In the same region, you have…