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October 14, 2003
Department of Defense Weblog Experiment
Posted by Clay Shirky
The Department of Defense is experimenting with weblogs to speed procurement and testing of hi-tech products, in the first round of projects selected for their
Rapid Acquisition Incentive Net-Centricity (that'd be the RAI/NC to you, soldier.)
There's not much information in the
RAI/NC PDF (I loves me some acronyms), but the weblog portion says
Pilot Summary:
Test & Evaluation Weblog (T&E BLOG) proposes implementing a BLOG for the T&E community. A BLOG is similar to a Community of Interest (COI), but applies multi-role security needed to freely communicate about proprietary technologies among different industry partners on the same team. Pilot will use a software solution from Traction to build the BLOG. The focus will be on the Liberty Project, night-vision technology, bringing the Services together with Ford Motor Company & New York City Police. Key success metrics will compare T&E cycle times for planning, executing and document test results.
Overall Netcentric Value:
T&E BLOG supports all three Net Centric goals: data is populated from commercial and other services and shared appropriately in order to get cutting edge technology to DoD before it is commercially available to our enemies. Thus, it in close alignment with majority of net centric architectural tenants & investment areas: data posting before processing, users pulling information, and collaboration between experts on an as needed basis. Proposal also supports the Government-Wide Initiatives in the President's Management Agenda. The increased collaboration with industry provides expanded electronic government services that allows the government to make decision faster regarding their investments according to project performance.
Participating organizations include the Naval Underwater Warfare Center, the Army Night Vision Lab, Ford, and the NYC Police
They've selected
Traction as their experimental platform, one of the first weblog platforms designed for business use. Traction has an interesting matrix of read/write/edit and user/group/world permissions, allowing for e.g. the board of a company to read the weblog from the sales department, and to add comments that only other board members can see. The trial is scheduled to last 4 months.
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Permalink to CommentI will be back, as you seem to know what you are talking about, to see if you added anything new that might help me.
Anyways, good luck with your website.
Take care and God Bless
Steve A Halifax Mooseheads Hockey Fan
2. Jackie on March 23, 2004 11:36 PM writes...
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