"You can go to almost any mission area or functional area in the United
States Navy and think about how much of our human capital gets spent
diving into various databases and then manually aggregating it," she
said. "If we could get to a place where our data is in a cloud that's
understandable, that's smartly tagged, that's discoverable, we could
easily get to solutions that don't require so much human intervention.
That lets the humans deal with the higher-order thinking that's required
to make those decisions."
That's the next step, Tighe said, and it's a lot easier said than done.
The Navy's IT architecture isn't poised to free the data from the
systems that house it, and neither are its policies.
"What we're thinking is along the lines of a big data-type approach,"
she said. "We need to ingest data in a way that lets us understand it
well and share it across a number of different mission areas. We need to
get to a more standardized way of dealing with data, and particularly
big data."
Tighe said the big data issue isn't really a technological problem, as
Amazon and Google have proven with their own decentralized cloud based
information systems. Rather, it's a policy problem the Navy, and DoD as a
whole, need to overcome by rethinking things such as identity
management, and collapsing networks that don't inter-operate with one
another.
Full Article from Federal News Radio is
HERE.
And, more on BIG DATA
here.
RDML Tighe is Director, Decision Superiority, OPNAV N2N6F4.
