This Is How $2 Billion a Year Can Be Spent Very Effectively (Realizing That We Would Create

Notional Spending Plan for $2B Defense Open Source Activity (DOSA)

Although I recommend that Year 1 be limited to $125M as originally proposed to OMB and SASC, this is how $2 billion a year can be spent very effectively (realizing that we would create a requirements process and field requests and suggestions that would be handled within the margin of error of the below plan):

$600M a year on commercial imagery procurement and geospatial intelligence services that NGA does not have budgeted. This would be done in very careful coordination with NGA, but leaving SOCOM in control of the priorities and timing. In the out-years, we would finally force the issue of getting to 1:25,000 and 1:10,000 digital geospatial imagery and data to support precision attack and the three-block urban war.
$250M to BBC and perhaps FBIS. While OSDI is not planning to give FBIS anything, once DoD has an OSINT authority, it makes sense to make peace with FBIS and help them help SOCOM and the rest of DoD with operationally-oriented information.They just need a new cadre of people with military backgrounds that think tactically. BBC gets $40M a year now from FBIS, I believe their management might be able to offer a cost plan to ramp up their services to go beyond the main languages and get down and dirty with the 33+ languages where media monitoring and gray literature monitoring are not up to snuff. Reuters and AP stringers would be harnessed. We need to get all the disparate commercial monitoring services to work together.

$250M for acquisition intelligence support, not just for SOCOM, but for all the services. Just think of this as 250 "packages" focusing on the 100 critical technologies and 150 different weapons, mobility, and C4ISR systems.
$250M for the creation of GWOT-oriented regional information-sharing centers that leverage US money and coalition military indigenous personnel with access to offline information and the language and cultural and historical skills to make sense of it. Just think of this as 25 $10M a year "centers" focused on different regions in depth (including sub-regions like Central Asia, Balkans, West Africa, and Muslim Pacifica). These centers will set the stage for information sharing among the “seven tribes”[1] in each country, and allow DoD to “capture” all relevant information in all languages.
$250M for a CISCO-SAIC global distribution "for free" of their capabilities to foreign militaries, NGOs, businesses, etc, the whole point being to migrate their next generation technology to the rest of the world sooner than later. Think of this as 250 specific "straws" that can all be pointed back into SOJICC and made sense of at the edges.

$250M for tactical implementations, centers of excellence in congressional districts, etc. This piece would be focused on Service intelligence centers, National Guard districts, and the interface with state & local authorities under Guard auspices (Guard can hold both local law enforcement and national commissions).

$150M for overhead, headquarters staff, etcetera.

TOTAL: $2B to be obligated in six months. St.

Prepared by Robert Steele, CEO OSS.Net, Inc., for the good of the group (DoD)

[1] National, military, law enforcement, business, academic, NGO-media, citizen-labor-religion.