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**Richard P. O'Neill** is an American military consultant. He is the founder of the [[Highlands Group]]. | **Richard Patrick O'Neill** is an American military consultant. He is the founder of the [[Highlands Group]]. |
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===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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O'Neill previously served in government, in his last position as deputy for strategy and policy in the [[Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence]] (ASD C3I).((O’Neill, R. P. (2001). //The Highlands Forum Process.// Program on Information Resources Policy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230214081302/http://www.pirp.harvard.edu/pubs_pdf/o%27neill/o%27neill-i01-3.pdf)) He retired from the [[United States Navy]] after a 29-year career. | In 1989, O’Neill, then a cryptologist with the [[United States Navy]], wrote a paper for the [[US Naval War College]] titled "Toward a methodology for perception management." |
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| O'Neill served in government, in his last position as deputy for strategy and policy in the [[Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence]] (ASD C3I).((O’Neill, R. P. (2001). //The Highlands Forum Process.// Program on Information Resources Policy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230214081302/http://www.pirp.harvard.edu/pubs_pdf/o%27neill/o%27neill-i01-3.pdf)) He retired from the [[United States Navy]] after a 29-year career. |
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O'Neill founded the [[Highlands Group]] in 1994.((//About.// Highlands Group. Retrieved June 13, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080613131735/http://www.highlandsgroup.net/about.php?ID=1)) | O'Neill founded the [[Highlands Group]] in 1994.((//About.// Highlands Group. Retrieved June 13, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080613131735/http://www.highlandsgroup.net/about.php?ID=1)) |
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On April 5, 2001, O'Neill participated in a "Seminar on Intelligence, Command, and Control" hosted by the [[Program on Information Resources Policy]], sponsored by [[Harvard University]] and the [[Center for Information Policy Research]].((O’Neill, R. P. (2001). //The Highlands Forum Process.// Program on Information Resources Policy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230214081302/http://www.pirp.harvard.edu/pubs_pdf/o%27neill/o%27neill-i01-3.pdf)) In his presentation, O'Neill described "a process that [the Highlands Group] created for the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] in particular but for the U.S. government in general," which was "also adopted by a number of commercial entities." | On April 5, 2001, O'Neill participated in a "Seminar on Intelligence, Command, and Control" hosted by the [[Program on Information Resources Policy]], sponsored by [[Harvard University]] and the [[Center for Information Policy Research]].((O’Neill, R. P. (2001). //The Highlands Forum Process.// Program on Information Resources Policy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230214081302/http://www.pirp.harvard.edu/pubs_pdf/o%27neill/o%27neill-i01-3.pdf)) In his presentation, O'Neill described "a process that [the Highlands Group] created for the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] in particular but for the U.S. government in general," which was "also adopted by a number of commercial entities." He labelled it an "intellectual venture capital process" and "an idea engine." O'Neill's task "was to write the strategy and policy for the secretary of defense on where conflict will likely be |
| going in a future information-age setting." |
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On September 7, 2010, O'Neill spoke at the [[Gov 2.0 Summit]] about "government and private use of online technology." Among the topics addressed were computer security issues, privacy and governmental transparency, and public-private cooperation.((//Government Use of Technology.// (2010, September 7). C-SPAN. https://www.c-span.org/video/?295336-1/government-technology)) | On September 7, 2010, O'Neill spoke at the [[Gov 2.0 Summit]] about "government and private use of online technology." Among the topics addressed were computer security issues, privacy and governmental transparency, and public-private cooperation.((//Government Use of Technology.// (2010, September 7). C-SPAN. https://www.c-span.org/video/?295336-1/government-technology)) |