Military

DoD has more intel than it can process

The Department of Defense is grappling with an overwhelming preponderance of data, so much so that it can’t process it all. 

The department needs to take a comprehensive approach at what is known as processing, exploitation and dissemination, or PED in DoD parlance, according to the director of Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support), which falls under the purview of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence 

“We are now at the point for the first time I can remember where PED is the shortfall more so than the platforms themselves,” Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan said during a March 17 luncheon hosted by AFCEA’s Northern Virginia Chapter. 

The DoD doesn’t have the backend analytics for all the platforms and sensors being put into the field, he added.