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Unmanned Sicarios: How the War in Ukraine Is Enhancing Latin American Armed Groups’ Drone Capabilities

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In a war against an enemy with superior manpower and conventional arms advantages, Ukraine’s innovative use of weaponized drones has helped it make significant territorial gains, strike previously secure areas, and consistently stay ahead of Russia’s countermeasures across four and a half years of fighting. In Latin America, a growing number of armed groups are adopting Ukraine’s tactics, using drones in their own battles against local government forces and rivals.

Masked Provocateur: The Russian Shadow Fleet and How Soviet-Era TTPs Are Furthering Russia’s Subterfuge

By Thomas Garrison
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Operating in a nautical netherworld via opaque ownership and location cloaking methods, Russia’s antiquated shadow fleet has simultaneously evaded sanctions to support the nation’s wartime economy and provided a platform…

Benefits of Open-Source Research for Federal Agencies

By Thomas Garrison
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With the 24/7 news cycle, many of us have learned to source and assess articles and updates like professional researchers. Is the information I have in hand accurate or not?…

Insider Secrets for Knowledge Management System Adoption: Community Building

By Thomas Garrison
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Your agency’s new knowledge management system (KMS) went live a few weeks ago. You were excited to introduce it to everyone and expected to hear good feedback, but what are…

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

By Thomas Garrison
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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

By Thomas Garrison
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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

By Thomas Garrison
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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.

By Thomas Garrison
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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

By Thomas Garrison
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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

By Thomas Garrison
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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…