1)  The COCOM's Open Source  Activity must be a direct report to the Deputy Combatant Commander, with an oversight board that includes all [we repeat, ALL] of the J Section heads.  This Activity must be, as as Congressman Simmons has stated so clearly, "outside the wire" which we take to mean, external liaison is handled by civil affairs specialists, while internal evaluation and exploitation is resident within all the J's, but with the J-2 having a special cachet.  This activity must be manned, organized, and oriented toward providing equally responsive support to the command element, *every* J section, and of course the J-2 as part of the deal.

2)  The COCOM's open source management cell should be comprised of no more than six individuals that serve primarily as a requirements, collection, and produciton outsourcing element with two major sources of inputs: niche sources and services provided by vendors directly to the command and--this is the big one--a $10M a year multinational open source center manned by rotationals from indigenous countries--US money, their access, language, and knowledge.

3)  The COCOM's need to form their own O-6 level open source council to mirror the O-6 level council formed by USDI, and they need to make their first collective priority the funding of the Open Source Information System -- External (OSIS-X) that is open to all countries, all organizations, using the superb Intelink standards and look and feel, and from which a trusted series of US vendors can migrate the best stuff back into OSIS-G, NIPRNet, and SIPRNet.

OSS.Net is an evangelical organization.  We will gladly assist any theater commander and their staff in formulating their requirements for a theater-wide, all-purpose open source activity and network.  All of the theater POCs know how to get in touch. 

We wish to respectfully observe that we have something no one else has: a nuclear-powered rolodex of every person in every country who has attended one of our training events (over 7,500 individuals).  For each thearer, we have very specific recommendations for where to put the international open source center, and which countries to invite into a leadership role within that center.  This knowledge is available on request to any theater commander and their staff.