I want to be Tom Cruise in "Minority Report"!
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 6:50AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

No Abizaid - but plenty of good F2Fs with his guys. He pushes them like crazy on connecting the dots: not data-sharing (got that in spades) but knowledge-sharing.


So we talk rule-set automation as a key part of the solution, because a lot of that existed behind all those bits that Cruise was fingering in that movie: as in, a load of if-when rules were triggered before any of that stuff got to his screen (basically, signals of intent processed through the water-logging brainiacs).


In my mind, these guys want to be able to run into the commander's office with one of those wooden balls of knowledge (i.e., an actionable item identified with a high degree of confidence).


This is Enterra's raison d'etre WRT the federal national security sector.


I see Steve and I back here in Tampa sooner than later. Can't wait.

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