The Pentagon is sitting on a hoard of data but doesn’t know what to do with it. A new report from George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security makes the case that artificial intelligence — powered by cloud computing and big data analytics — is the solution.
How bad is the problem? The GWU report estimates that “probably 99%-plus of the data that [DOD] collects is dark [and] never exploited. It just sits someplace, waiting for daylight.”
The report, a series of issue briefs compiled from speaking panels on emerging technologies, doesn’t attribute individual quotes to panelists, but includes input from George Duchak, deputy assistant secretary of defense for communications, command and control and cyber.
