The U.S. military has a data problem. If knowing is half the battle then it’s the half the Pentagon should never lose, at least in theory. But in practice, the military’s data problem is significant, vexing, and given the current pace of acceleration, technologically intimidating. Just two years ago, there were roughly a dozen NATO aircraft flying surveillance missions over Afghanistan at any given time. Now, there are more than 50 Predator and Reaper drones in the air at once, and all of them are dumping fat streams of data to the ground all the time. via PopSci
November 2, 2011
