The US military is drowning in data. It uses powerful and exquisite sensors, all machines, to suck up oceans of information about the world, but then it leaves the job of making sense of it to humans. There simply are not enough people in the US military to interpret all of this data, nor will there ever be. As a result, most of the information that the US military collects either goes unused or is thrown away—a complete waste that results in people making less-informed decisions, often about matters of life and death.
