us as we're moving this forward >> stay tuned for more with colonel >>> i'm back with colonel john morrison, the director of the army's land war net battle command. sir, let's go to the n. i.e.s. you obviously have a couple of them under your belt now. what are some of the lessons lear paying huge dividends. i'd be remiss if i didn't give you an example. we write requirements, they're written in some schoolhouse somewhere and the acquisition community goes off and they buy them. sometimes we don't go back in and check those requirements to make sure they're right. that's what the n. i.e. allows us to do. in an operational setting, soldiers are taking a look at our requirements and making sure they're right. we have a program called the net warrior program, multibillion dollar program that was for light infantrymen, basically a computer on your back so you can have situational awareness and it costs a lot and it weighed 14 pounds. that's a lot for an infantryman to be carrying around when he's carrying around a bunch of other stuff. we put a commercial capability in the hands of our soldiers

john walker lindh. not to interrogate him without an attorney and not torture him and when i blew the whistle i ended up being quite under criminal investigation referred to the state morrison which i'm licensed as a warrior and put on the no fly list but it. wasn't always this way in two thousand and two the time magazine person of the year was the whistleblowers and although the government tried to have him put away for life daniel ellsberg was hailed as a hero by the public for leaking information that became known as the pentagon papers classified documents he helped author that revealed what was actually happening in vietnam. were he revealed to the public what the public should have known from the government itself. important knowledge important knowledge now often stifled both on and off the battlefield and the military effort one an is sexually assaulted or abused or even rate she's supposed to go through the chain of command which will actually harm her and started helping her outside of the military policies are also being drawn up to protect corporations the so-called whistleblower improvement act if passed will actually harm whistleblowers requiring them to repo

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