From: iw@all.net
Subject: IW Mailing List iw/960129
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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 19:58:22 EST

List of interesting IW sites for the information warrior:

Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
   http://www.nist.gov

NIST Computer Systems Lab
   http://www.ncsl.nist.gov
   http://www.csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/keyescrow/criteria.txt
   (related private sector site http://www.epic.org/privacy)

NIST NII Virtual Library
   http://nii.nist.gov/nii.html

Nat'l Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
   http://www.ntia.doc.gov
   ftp://ntia.doc.gov
   gopher://gopher.ntia.doc.gov

Dept. of Commerce (DOC)
   http://www.doc.gov

Dept. of the Treasury
   http://www.ustreas.gov
   http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/atf/atf.html
   http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/fincen/fincen.htm
   http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/iniatives/gits.html

Dept. of Justice (DOJ)
   http://www.usdoj.gov

Dept. of Energy (DOE)
   http://www.doe.gov
   http://www.doe.gov/dimap
   http://www.doe.gov/html/procure/prbus.html

DOE Advanced Computing Lab
   http://www.acl.lanl.gov/Home.html

Nat'l Information Infrastructure Task Force
   http://www.iitf.doc.gov

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
   http://www.faa.gov
   http://www.tc.faa.gov
   gopher://gopher.faa.gov

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
   http://www.fcc.gov

US Government Printing Office (GPO)
   http://www.access.gpo.gov
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/su-docs/index.html

US General Service Administration (GSA)
   http://www.gsa.gov
   http://www.gsa.gov/irms.htm
   http://www.gsa.gov/irms/ki/smpo.htm

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
   http://www.fbi.gov
   http://www.fbi.gov/compcrim.htm
   http://naic.nasa.gov/fbi

National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
   http://www.nasa.gov
   http://www.nasa.gov/nsi

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Office of the Secretary of Defense
    http://enterprise.osd.mil

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/c31/bprcd

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
   http://www.disa.mil

Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition & Technology
   http://www.acq.osd.mil/HomePage.html

Dept. of Defense Acquisition Workforce
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/acqed2/acqed.html

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
   http://www.arpa.mil

Defense Center for Standards in the Joint Interoperability & Engineering
Organization
   http://www.itsi.disa.mil
   http://www.itsi.disa.mil/dmshome.html
   (related commercial site http://www.dms.loral.com)

Defense Global Command & Control System
   http://164.117.208.50

Defense Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration
   http://192.108.98.23

Defense National Communications System
   http://164.117.147.223

Defense Mapping Agency
   http://www.dma.gov
   http://164.214.2.50/check-login.html

Defense Information Analysis Centers
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/iac
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil:80/iac

Defense Technical Information Center & Acquisition Information
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/dtiw
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/bosnia

Defense TechTRANSIT
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/techtransit

Defense Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence
(C4I)
   http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c41

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, &
Intelligence (C3I)
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/c31
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/osd

Director of Defense Research & Engineering
   http://www.acq.osd.mil/ddre

Defense Scientific & Technical Information Network
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/stinet

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US Air Force
   http://www.afin.af.mil
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil:80/airforcelink

Air Force Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (C4I)
Agency
   http://www.infosphere.safb.af.mil

Air Force Electronic Systems Center
   http://www.hanscom.af.mil
   http://www.hanscom.af.mil/Hanscom/Groups/Fort

Air Force Rome Lab
   http://www.rl.af.mil:8001
   http://www.dtic.dla.mil/airforce

Air Force ACC Computer Systems Squadron Network Technical Assistance Center
   http://www.ntac.access.af.mil

Air Force 38th E&I Wing
   http://www.eiw38.af.mil/cshome.html
   http://stem.eiw38.af.mil

Air Force Software Technology Support Center
   http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil

Air Force Standard Systems Group
   http://www.ssc.af.mil

Air Force Air Intelligence Agency
   http://www.tecnet2.jcte.jcs.mil:8000/cybrspk/aialink.html

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US Army
   http://www.army.mil

Army Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, &
Computers (C4)
   http://www.army.mil/disc4-pg/disc4.htm

Army Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation Command
Army ODISC4 Information Mission Area Integration & Analysis Center
   http://www.stricom.army.mil

Army Signal Center
   http://www.gordon.army.mil

Army Communications-Electronics Command
   http://www.monmouth.army.mil/cecom/cecom.html

Army Information Systems Engineering Command
   http://www.cec.army.mil

Army Information Systems Management Activity
   http://www.cec.army.mil/isma

Army Military Intelligence Center
   http://huachuca-usaic.army.mil

Army Special Operations Command
   http://137.29.194.201/docs.security

Army Force XXI InfoNet Home Page
   http://204.7.227.67:1100/infonet.html

Army Research Lab
   http://www.arl.mil

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US Coast Guard
   http://www.webcom.com/~d13www/welcome.html

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US Marine Corps
   http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/mission.htm
   http://www.hqmc.disa.mil/jwid/jwidmain.htm
   http://143.211.231.66/jwid/jwidmain.htm

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US Navy
   http://www.ncts.navy.mil

Naval Research Lab (NRL)
   http://www.nrl.navy.mil

Navy Advanced Information Technology Branch of the NRL
   http://www.ait.nrl.navy.mil/rts.warrior.html

Naval Command, Control, & Ocean Surveillance Center
   http://www.nosc.mil

Navy Space & Naval Warfare
   http://www.dolomite.spawar.navy.mil

Naval Postgraduate School
   http://www.nps.navy.mil

Navy Copernicus
   http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c41/coperfwd.txt

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National Security Agency/Central Security Service
   http://www.nsa.gov:8080

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Central Intelligence Agency & Intelligence Community
   http://www.odci.gov/cia
   http://www.odci.gov/ic

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
   http://www.saclant.nato.int/nato.html

NATO Command & Control Information System
   http://cliffie.nose.mil

NATO SHAPE Technical Center
   http://www.stc.nato.int
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From: garigue@dgs.drenet.dnd.ca
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 22:12:22 +0600
Subject: Re: IW Mailing List iw/960127

With regards to Information as an elemental component of physical reality. 

>There are few proponents yet of the third view of information, but if/as
>it takes hold, it may help to draw some new implications that will
>broaden the meaning of "information warfare" even further (if the term
>survives).  

The book "The Evolution of Information Processing Systems" by
Haefner(ed) Springer Verlag, 1992 looks at the evolution of information
and its processing in nature and society.  16 Physicists, biologists and
Informaticien look exactly at that question.  They investigated how
information from the Matter-Energy processes at the physical level gets
to emerge into information to be processed at the biological level, and
then again finaly at the sociotechnical level. 

The end result is that we still have not found a General Information
Theory (GIT).  However, it does help to clarify the syntactical,
semantic and pragmatic aspects of information.  And this can be applied
to IW.  BTW that triumvira (synatx, semantics and pragmatics) is also
called Semiotics, a subject that we have yet to broach here with regards
to IW. 

IMHO, one of the reason is that the instrument for discoving the GIT,
the computer, is only 40 years old.  Which makes the present occurence
such a discovery slim.  Furthermore, the computer is both the subject
and the tool of the investigation, which makes things a bit recursive. 
Let's not forget that astronomy took off with the telescope, and biology
took off with the miscroscope.  As much as we would like to believe we
understand what is information theory, presently we are only but
"alchimists" looking for the elusive "pierre philosophale". 

One could see, if energy, mass, and information are the only elemental
components of physical reality, then the equation E=MCC is incomplete
because the variable I (for information) is included in both M and E.  f
we could separate it out and have E=I*MCC. An action on the information
variable would effect the variables E and M.  So how do we measure "I"
with regards to E and M? How do we control it? What is the DNA of mother
nature? anyone?

[Moderator's Note: Don't we mean (ExI)=(MxI)(CxI)(CxI)? To assume that I
is a multiplicative process or that the dimensions of I don't apply to E
as well as M and C is perhaps a bit naive.  Also note that some effort
has been done on "a physics of information" and one of the most
important results so far is that information (as a stand-alone quantity)
is not conserved. It is widely admitted that it takes energy to change
information, but information content (in the Shannon sense) can either
be increased or decreased with the same amount of energy.  Thus, it would
seem that information is a different dimension than energy.]

In truth, War would be very different under these conditions. 

(But then again isn't this the basis for the transporter and the 
replicator?)
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