The digital age, the age of information, the computer age – all are
terms used as identifiers to depict how the 21st century has brought
with it nearly unfathomable amounts of data. Knowing that the
information is there and how to access it is one thing, but making sense
of it and using it for both defense and commercial purposes is what
makes it so-called big data. The challenge for both warfighters and the
manufacturers that provide them with their technology: Acquiring that
data in contested environments and relaying it in an efficient way.
Making this task more difficult is the reality that conflict often
occurs in data-denied areas, making it near-impossible for these systems
to access the information the military wants or doesn’t yet know it
needs. The accessibility of data in-theater is a key challenge for
advancing big data utilization in the military. Big data is a broad term
with applicability across many areas of interest to the military. We
see a clear trend of military requirements directing the use of big data
throughout the life cycle of new procurements and the modernization of
legacy systems. As new sources of data develop and novel uses for data
emerge, big data growth will continually outpace utilization in all
industries, including the military. Big data has been called the oxygen
of the ML revolution and military intelligence gathering. The
capabilities are designed to supplement each other with the intent to
provide warfighters with mission-critical, timely information at the
tactical edge.


Mark Zais
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markzais/

The Data Standard
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