And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department’s business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
But by providing the background picture – the universal situational awareness that we desire – by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
It’s easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it – the war fighter and the analyst. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that’s useful to them. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That’s, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
That’s driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns – one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq – and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism. Stephen Cambone Read Quote
