Big Data For Defense And Intelligence Symposium

Information sharing and information overload challenges continue to dominate operational and acquisition planning within the Department of Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement communities. Increasingly, government agencies are looking for the latest tools and capabilities in big data and predictive analytics to provide the means to analyze, exploit and draw conclusions sourced from the seemingly overwhelming inputs from an ever-increasing numbers of sensors and collection tools.

This outstanding symposium brings together the key government and industry experts who are shaping the direction of big data and predictive analytics research and development for defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement.

• What are the latest DoD, Intelligence Community, and Homeland Security needs and initiatives in Big Data and predictive analytics?

• How is Big Data analytics being applied to ISR, intelligence sharing, video analytics, atmospherics, identity, biometrics, and a whole range of other critical mission applications?

• What opportunities and challenges are presented by the convergence of cloud and large-scale analytics?

• What solutions are emerging? What role(s) can industry play?