Featured Article: Building a Foundational Understanding of Interagency Coordination

● ehill ● December 12, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Building a Foundational Understanding of Interagency Coordination by Patrick Naughton As the American military shifts from a counterinsurgency focus to one oriented on large scale combat operations (LSCO) against a peer-competitor and further develops the MultiDomain Operations (MDO) concept, interagency coordination will remain critical. As the largest ground… Read More

Featured Article: Why We Can’t All Just Get Along…

● ehill ● October 31, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Why We Can’t All Just Get Along: Overcoming Personal Barriers to Inter-organizational Effectiveness by William J. Davis, Jr. DoD placed Pakistan and India in separate geographic combatant commands in order to foster U.S. military relationships with each country, given their history of tension and conflict. In contrast, State… Read More

Featured Article: Improving Interagency Coordination in Africa

● ehill ● May 16, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Improving Interagency Coordination in Africa by Robert Bennett United States Army Africa (USARAF) executes over 400 activities annually valued at $2 million. These activities augment activities sponsored by other U.S. government, private charitable foundations, churches, and regional African organizations. The stated goals for these activities are complementary, but… Read More

Featured Article: Insights to Effective Interorganizational Coordination

● ehill ● May 9, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Insights to Effective Interorganizational Coordination by David Grambo, Barrett Smith and Richard W. Kokko The Joint Staff J7, Joint Force Development, supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and contributes to the operational effectiveness of the joint force through the publication of focus papers containing… Read More

Featured Article: Interagency Leadership

● ehill ● September 13, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Interagency Leadership by Duane M. Blackburn After they have proven themselves within their own organizations and find themselves working on a priority topic, federal employees will likely lead an interagency team. Unfortunately, the behaviors and mindset that have made them and their team members successful within their agency… Read More

NIST report advocates cybersecurity standardization

● ehill ● August 14, 2015 ● IA News ● No Comments

On August 10, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) released their draft Report on Strategic U.S. Government Engagement in International Standardization to Achieve U.S. Objectives for Cybersecurity. In 2014, NIST was tasked with collaborating with U.S. federal government agencies to ensure interagency coordination in “the development of international… Read More

Cyber exercise tests whole-of-nation response

● ehill ● July 9, 2015 ● IA News ● No Comments

In June, U.S. Cyber Command, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hosted a multi-agency exercise designed to simulate a whole-of-nation response to attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure. Cyber Guard brought together cyberspace and critical infrastructure operators and experts from more than 100 organizations… Read More

InterAgency Journal 5-3 (Fall 2014)

● ehill ● September 24, 2014 ● InterAgency Journal (IAJ) ● No Comments

Inside this issue: Insights to Effective Interorganizational Coordination, David Grambo, Barrett Smith and Richard W. Kokko; Improving Interagency Coordination in Africa, Robert Bennett; There is No Silver Bullet and Other Lessons from Colombia, Stuart Lippe… and much more.

Report examines interagency coordination in Afghanistan

● ehill ● October 15, 2013 ● IA News ● No Comments

The IBM Center for The Business of Government recently published a report examining interagency coordination in Afghanistan. The author draws on interviews with ambassadors, generals, and other important figures, analyzing the interactions between U.S. civilian and military efforts in Afghanistan from 2001-2009...

Report assesses global food security efforts

● ehill ● September 24, 2013 ● IA News ● No Comments

The Government Accountability Office recently released a report assessing progress made in the whole-of-government Feed the Future food security initiative. The report, GAO-13-809, follows previous reports on the subject, which found that food security efforts were fragmented and uncoordinated...

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