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

By Thomas Garrison
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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 Dr. Jennifer Hudson
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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…

One Clearance to Rule Them All

By Mark Costis
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Does the process of obtaining a security clearance feel as grueling and unending as Frodo Baggins’s quest to destroy the One Ring of Power? Does the idea of “reciprocity” in…

5 Steps to Stop Information Hoarding and Encourage Collaboration

By Andrea Castle
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“Information sharing” isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a reality for modern-day government operations. However, sharing is difficult. We learned from the 9/11 Commission that the lack of information sharing was…

Open-Source Data Is Everywhere, You Just Need to Use It

By Brie Gilvin
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Did you know that you have access to robust conflict data on Africa? Or that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United States Agency for International…

Holding 59% of Backlogged Clearances in Its Hands, DoD Announces New "Lines of Effort"

By Geoff Openshaw
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Obtaining a security clearance can feel like the long march to Mordor: just when you think you have arrived, an angry little monster shows up to set you on a…

Reading or Skimming: Writing for How People Read Online

By Riz Zandi
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What if I told you that the majority of visitors to your site aren’t actually reading your content but are just skimming it? The fact is most people simply don’t…

We Want to Shape the Future Without Spending Time Building Context

By Joe Delany
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The 9-11 Commission stated six primary reasons for restructuring the Intelligence Community. First on the list was that information was not organized. The Commission argued that the importance of “…integrated,…

Out of the Wild: Taming the Information Beast in the Digital Age

By Maureen Carita
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As knowledge workers in today’s digital world, we’re constantly bombarded with unstructured information of all types in all formats–emails, news feeds, blogs, research papers, whitepapers, performance reports, market analyses, etc.…

Choosing the Right Image Format for the Web

By Joe Fitzgerald
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Whether you’re a seasoned web content manager or a newbie blogger, you’ll likely find yourself asking this question: what is the best image file format to use for my web…

When In Doubt, Make A Graphic

By Geoff Openshaw
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Managing information often results in cumbersome data sets that are not friendly to readers or the poor saps curating them. Whether working through thousands of pages of coded results from…

The Collaboration Conundrum

By Brie Gilvin
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If you have worked with or for any US government agency, you know that sharing “across lines” with other agencies is at best a headache and at worst out of…