By late 2010, DARPA was touting Nexus 7’s successes within the Pentagon, but it was not clear what it had accomplished, if anything. As members of the team worked on a base crunching numbers from military and intelligence data feeds, another team of contractors, the Synergy Strike Force, was working in the provinces of Afghanistan, swapping beer for data and using crowdsourcing techniques honed in the red balloon hunt. —
