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Title: Is Big Data Up to the Military Challenge?
Post by: rangerrebew on November 08, 2017, 10:31:46 am


Is Big Data Up to the Military Challenge?
November 1, 2017
By Beverly Cooper


Technology, procedures and humans must align.

In today’s big data environments, it is not that “we don’t know what we don’t know.” It is actually “we don’t know what we do know,” according to Col. Pete Don, USA, deputy senior intelligence officer for intelligence operations, U.S. Army Pacific. “We are being dazzled with so much data that it is hard to focus and find the needle in the haystack." The net seizes our attention only to scatter it, he contends. Col. Don joined three other colleagues as part of a panel on cybersecurity intelligence at TechNet Asia-Pacific.

https://www.afcea.org/content/big-data-military-challenge