Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence (paperback)

Chapter Four. FromWarfare to Government, Connectivity Is Vitality

One of the problems military leaders have in warfare is that they are overloaded with datathey have more imaging information than they have the people who can interpret it. Pervasive connectivity and distilling monumental volumes of data into tactical information locally is the new goal.

Jay Bertelli, CEO of Mercury Computer Systems, supplier of massive processing systems