The digital exhaust left by just about everyone online . . . provides businesses, as well as governments and crime syndicates, with a wealth of data to mine and manipulate.
The U.S. defense intelligence enterprise will need to know much more about these disruptive combinations of technologies in order to navigate properly within the confines of a city or a war zone in the future.
A dedicated cadre of knowledgeable analysts will be needed to search for, review, and assess this new stream of collection for early warning of potential threats and for the benefits that could accrue from an awareness of how these new technologies could be used to enhance military intelligence operations and protect the warfighter.
[ RAND – June 6, 2016 ]
