This is a really big deal and huge step! The Defense Intelligence Agency is focused on co-mingling data, self-discovery, and contextual analysis.
The lifeblood of intelligence is not raw data, but the process and quality of analysis that turns the data into finished intelligence to make decisions. Their Nerd Brigade takes source developers, source coders, business process [experts] and engineers and sits them beside production analysts, using true data the Agency and these analysts have to live with every day, to look at their process and figure out how to do a very agile two-week spin to improve their process and make their lives a little easier. The thrust of their analytic modernization effort is figuring out how to make use of the data its employees and customers generate and how to gain insights from data the agency has never used before.
fedscoop.com/spy-agency-accelerates-innovation-deal-big-data
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