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Bob King said: The U.S. Naval Institute offers an on-scene report from day one. The conference, titled "Building a Balanced Joint Force: How Best to Meet Demands of the Future Security Environment," explored changes in the operating environment joint forces will encounter in coming years, and ways the military must adapt in order to prevail. Many of the considerations discussed – among them demography, urbanization, and cultural understanding – differed, said speakers, from issues traditionally discussed by military planners Speaking of the attacks on computer and communications networks a participanted noted that the threat: "should not distract us from a bigger problem: sharing information. We are not good at it. There needs to be a balance between sharing and defending. We need to assess the risks." Interestingly enough, that was one of the conclusions in NDU's recently published Social Software and National Security: An Initial Net Assessment. In that paper, Dr. Mark Drapeau (@cheeky_geeky) and Dr. Linton Wells (@linwells) write: 5.2 Analyze the Balance Between Security and Sharing "While some measure of “no” is reasonable, there is a point at which a mission can be hurt by strictly enforcing such draconian approaches that it keeps government from taking advantage of social tools that adversaries and other counterparties are using." May 13, 2009 1:36 PM

About Bob King

Interests

• Social Media, Web 2.0 tools, Network Enabled Collaboration
• Knowledge Management
• Strategic Communication
• Information Operations
• Cyberspace Operations

Current Position

Senior Integration Analyst, Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate (CADD), Operations Division

Responsible for accomplishing complex studies and analyses of processes and products associated with the transition from printed to electronic media.

Major Duties:

• Doctrine Digital Conversion and Technology Integration: Serves as the senior analyst and subject-matter expert responsible for phasing out paper based development and management processes.
  
• Knowledge Management: Develops the CAC-K/CADD knowledge management strategy that includes Army Publishing Toolkit-Doctrine Support, milWiki support, data warehousing, data mining, data visualization, and other data analysis tools.
  
• Plans and Policy Formulation, Integration and Implementation: Writes, coordinates and staffs TRADOC integration and synchronization operations for use at all levels (Army, Joint, and DOD) in the development identification, evaluation and prioritization of doctrine needs.
  
• Program Manager and Liaison: Serves as program manager and liaison between Army and other doctrinal literature preparing agencies. Analyzes, develops, implements and manages the automated doctrinal development and management system.

Past Experience

Computer Network Operations (CNO) Policy Analyst (SAIC) (2009-2010)
Supporting CAC, Capabilities Development & Integration Directorate, Concepts Development Division.

Instructor, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (2002-2009)
Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations

Military Service

U.S. Navy (retired), Submarine Force (1984-2005)

Education

BSE, Computer Engineering, Auburn University (1989)

MA, Computer Resources and Information Management, Webster University (1997)

MBA, Webster University (2002)

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) (2001-2002)