The Age of Resiliance
16th Nov 2006, 21:52 GMT
(Esquire) ...People in the intelligence community bristle at the notion that they don't know how to "connect the dots." They did trade information before the September 11 attacks. They knew about Mohammed Atta. They knew about plans to attack America with airplanes. But they didn't have the capability to draw connections in a meaningful way..."We can't think up every asymmetric threat. But we're going to become so resilient that we'll mitigate the danger," says DeAngelis, who runs Enterra Solutions, a small technology firm in Yardley, Pennsylvania. This fall, Enterra teamed up with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a Department of Energy site outside Knoxville, Tennessee, to form the Institute for Advanced Technologies in Global Resilience. 12/16
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