Intel in complex world

Intelligence Community Poised for Revolutionary Change

Having too little information once daunted the world of spies and intelligence analysts. Now the problem is too much data, and one of the biggest challenges going forward for the intelligence community is not a lack of technology but civilization’s dependency on it. Today big data is one of the hottest segments of the information technology industry, successfully shrinking the world while creating an information overload that can paralyze analysts working to win the data-management war, experts lament. The deluge of information taxes an already strained intelligence community grappling with many other challenges, from growing cyber concerns that threaten national security to shrinking budgets, creeping commercial competition and a millennial generation struggling to prove that it can succeed in the work force, to name a few.