AFRICOM in the place! Point-one percent of the budget! Bring me one pane of glass! [Bridge — atalaku call-and-response] (What do we want?) INTEROPERABILITY! (How do you spell it?) Nobody on the continent knows! (Where's the vendor?) He's at AFCEA! (Where's the data?) Paywall! Cloud! Somewhere in Djibouti! On danse! On danse! Stovepipe — broken! Stovepipe — broken! The demo crushed it in the parking lot — but the parking lot isn't SOMALIA! [Verse 1 — rapid, breathless] Biggest landmass, smallest budget, two-seventy days deployed Remote-advising ghost, every vendor I avoid RPA over Somalia feeding me a stream First drone won't shake hands with the second drone's screen El Shabaab innovation cell shipping product fast My own kit needs a license just to boot at last Emailed the contractor — "love to assist!" PDF of a slide of a risk of a risk [Chorus — full shout-along, hype-man ad-libs in parens] Declare jihad on proprietary data! (eh! eh!) One pane of glass or I'm coming for ya later! (vas-y!) Paid for the feed then I paid for it twice! (encore!) Same bird, different invoice — that's not nice! (ah non!) Declare jihad on proprietary data! (chaud! chaud!) Holy war on the .docx and the folder! Free my drones from the EULA, let the partners see — Forty-three flags and I can't copy-paste, see! [Verse 2] Libyan partner rolls a Russian-Chinese stack Make 'em talk and protect our kit in back Open architecture — the dream, the desperate prayer Everybody sells the future, nobody sells repair Vendor flew in coach with a forty-slide deck Promised me the cloud, delivered me a wreck "Plug and play," he swore — plugged it, watched it crack China gives it free, breaks fast, send me two of that [Chorus] Declare jihad on proprietary data! (eh! eh!) One pane of glass or I'm coming for ya later! (vas-y!) Paid for the feed then I paid for it twice! (encore!) Same bird, different invoice — that's not nice! (ah non!) Declare jihad on proprietary data! (chaud! chaud!) Holy war on the .docx and the folder! Free my drones from the EULA, let the partners see — Forty-three flags and I can't copy-paste, see! [Outro — hype-man winding down, sincere] We do a lot with very little... very, very little. One screen. One truth. By with and through. Forty-three monitors and not one of them agrees. ...one pane of glass. Please. Just one.
