From the editor

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, Jan-March, 2008 by Sterilla A. Smith

This issue's theme is Knowledge Management (KM) with a focus on the U.S. Army Intelligence Center's (USAIC) Intelligence Center Online Network (ICON).

Colonel James Galvin, Director of the Battle Command Knowledge System (BCKS), establishes the KM environment in this issue by summarizing the origins of KM and discussing the ways the Army is integrating KM practices into the Operating and Generating forces in order to effect knowledge transfer. Mr. Scott Chunn, Director of USAIC's KM Office, introduces ICON, the Intelligence Knowledge Network for Military Intelligence (MI) professionals, a sort of 'one stop shop' connecting people and information within the Intelligence Community. He emphasizes that KM is about people and processes, not just technology.

Several writers from the USAIC KM Office explain the ICON moving parts. I encourage the reader, like I did, to go to https://icon.army.mil and use these articles to explore ICON Portal to find out just how powerful a tool this is for Intelligence professionals. In the training arena for example Captain Tom Pike, Course Manager for the MI Basic Officer Leader's Course, explains how ICON (along with other knowledge tools) is taught to lieutenants to enable them to leverage knowledge networks from the very first day of training.

John Ives offers a discussion of the 'people' side of KM, suggesting the development of a human resources program that proactively provides a personnel knowledge database and assignment policy to conserve tacit knowledge for future operations. Two articles detail work being done by the U.S. Army Reserves. Chief Warrant Officer Two Brian Harris explains how reserve units are using Intellipedia as a collaborative tool for intelligence production. Major Chris Barra discusses how a Reserve unit supports the BCKS initiative. Finally Rich Holden talks of the success of INTELST, a way for Intelligence professionals to share information and collaborate through email.

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