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  • 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.

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The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in the stories and this novel are fictitious. Though the settings of the Department of Veterans Affairs, CISA and other agencies, the White House and the US Capitol are real, the specific characters, security protocols, and events depicted within this novel are products of the author’s imagination.

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