September 22, 2026 Launch Date for The Chariot Protocol
The Chariot Protocol has a publication date: September 22, 2026.
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I Warned Them About the Buildings. Now It’s the Water.
Essay · July 31, 2026 I Warned Them About the Buildings. Now It’s the Water. William C. James · Former Deputy CIO for DevOps, Department of Veterans Affairs This week, CISA told water utilities nationwide to pull exposed industrial-control equipment off the internet. Not as a hypothetical. As a response to an actual attack. More…
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My Brother’s Keeper
Tom earned everything the VA was supposed to give him. The system had other ideas. A story about brotherhood, bureaucracy, and what comes next.
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VA Has a Cloud. Now It Needs a Brain.
VA’s Enterprise Cloud was a real accomplishment. The question is what VA builds on top of it — and the answer is a shared AI intelligence layer for all 17.6 million veterans.
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I Warned Them About the Buildings. The World Just Caught Up.
US agencies just confirmed that adversaries are actively exploiting the operational technology running VA facilities — HVAC, elevators, pharmacy dispensers. I wrote about this exact threat a year ago. The response was polite. So I wrote a novel.
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Why I Wrote a Thriller About the VA and Why It Matters Right Now
There are plenty of cybersecurity thrillers set in Silicon Valley or the Pentagon. What I couldn’t find was one set inside the federal civilian workforce — the people who actually run the government, day to day. So I wrote one.