Ok, this is a plea to the powers that be. If civilian contractors are the second largest force that is assisting in this war with 133,196 (2007 CENTCOM Census) +/- contractors out there, why do we not have access to a network? This TIGR system, or basically Myspace for the military is an awesome idea. But it completely ignores the input from thousands of us security contractors overseas that actually have some good intel on the various areas.
Or if we cannot be involved with TIGR, then set up a separate system for us? It makes sense to me, and in many ways, we all are communicating on various forms of social networks. Forums for one, has been a huge deal for uniting contractors and passing down information. But forums are also poorly organized. Myspace and Facebook are popular too, but yet again, they are not organized to suite the main goal of enhancing the war effort. Nor are these outlets necessarily secure. So really, OPSEC and PERSEC is left to the whims of those posters or the moderators of forums.
I say an easy solution to all of this, is to create a secure TIGR type system for contractors, that could be monitored by someone in the proposed Advisory Corps that John Nagl proposed. Or just find a relevant office, in the sea of departments in the DOD or DOS that could babysit something like this.