The Information Professionals Association is excited to see that the U.S. Marine Corps announced on March 9, 2022 the creation of an Information Maneuver career field for both officer and enlisted Marines, emphasizing a focus on cultivating professionals who are skilled at operationalizing information in the security environment. The Deputy Commandant for Information directed the...Read More

IPA members are cordially invited to a virtual social and live podcast recording. On Wed, March 9, 2022 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern, there will be an IPA members only live Cognitive Crucible podcast recording, social, and Q&A with a panel of Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) experts. The first 30 minutes will include...Read More

Following the publication of two reports by Katerina Sedova, a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, CSET will hold a virtual event at 4:00 p.m. ET on February 16, 2022 titled, More than Deepfakes: AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns. The talk will feature Sedova, who studies...Read More

Information Professionals Association charter member Alan Kelly recently published in Small Wars Journal an essay titled: “Why Responding is Losing: The Plays We Run (and the Plays We Don’t) to Defeat Disinformation.” According to Kelly, president and founder of Playmaker Systems, LLC and author of The Elements of Influence: The New Essential Systems for Managing...Read More

Below is a review of the recent article in the Fall 2021 of The Cyber Defense Review titled “Information Advantage Activities.”  The Army is struggling a bit in sorting out its Information Operations (IO) career force, the organizations that have supported IO in the Army since the 1990s.  The author of this article summarizes the...Read More

The U.S. Army Cyber Institute (ARCYBER) recently issued a solicitation seeking a contractor to supply “Science Fiction Prototyping” to help the organization, the broader Department of Defense, and NATO envision operations in the environments of the future (10 years out) and generate conversation across the community about such operations. According to the Army solicitation, Science...Read More

The following blog post was written by Information Professionals Association members Dr. Paul Lieber and Colonel (Ret.) Matthew Couglin (USMC). We welcome blog submissions from IPA members. Click here to Join IPA. Contrary to popular belief, artificial intelligence (AI) and sister machine learning (ML) are not cure-all capabilities to peer-competitor information dominance and/or disinformation and...Read More

Matt Armstrong, author of the mountainrunner.us blog, shares his view that the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs should be abolished.  Noting that the position, established in 1999 by direction of Congress to centralize leadership for the execution and coordination of government information and engagement programs abroad and at home,...Read More

The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor recently posted a commentary by Kseniya Kirillova on how Russia is escalating its propaganda, particularly in the information domain, as tensions increase due to the military buildup against Ukraine. The increase in influence messaging has traditionally been viewed as a disturbing potential indicator of escalation and seems to follow similar patterns...Read More

Several organizations and researchers are working on ways to identify fake geographic and satellite imagery as the ability to easily manipulate images threatens both national and economic security. The proliferation of deepfakes throughout civil society also has the potential to create safety hazards and inhibit humanitarian efforts, such as response to natural disasters if organizations...Read More