New conflicts have brought to the fore the need for more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. But more data, as highlighted by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, needs investments in information processing, exploitation and dissemination. Like many businesses and organisations, armed forces are increasingly reliant on managing and rapidly making sense of increasing amounts of data. Simply put, big data is now a part of the battlespace and there is a risk of drowning in a sea of bits and bytes. Big data is also an issue in the commercial world where corporations and institutions are bringing enormous analytical power to bear to crunch consumer data. This network-based, internet savvy know-how is increasingly seeing crossover into the defence realm.
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