The National Security Agency, while primarily occupied by sweeping up billions of phone calls, emails, texts and social media messages each day, wants better visual information about the earth and its residents, too, Admiral Michael Rogers said Wednesday.
"Signals intelligence ... ain't enough, you guys," the NSA chief told a gathering of contractors in the geospatial intelligence business. "We gotta create a much broader picture."
We need "the ability to visualize," he explained, because "man is fundamentally a visual creature."
Rogers, who also heads the Pentagon's United States Cyber Command, spent much of his keynote speech at the GEOINT 2015 conference pitching the technology, intelligence and defense companies in the audience on the importance of working together. The conference's slogan — appropriate, given the government's ever-growing demands — is "open the aperture."
"It's all about partnerships," Rogers told the audience. "How can we harness the power of the commercial sector?"
In how many other ways could the Director of the NSA gain a new perspective on the world?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Sunday June 28 2015, @05:28AM
No, they just realize how stupid the average American is and how little people realize the level of power that the NSA has because of the information the NSA can gather.
J. Edgar Hoover was able to influence the outcome of presidential elections. Think what the powers at the NSA and FBI can do now.
Think of how many members of congress you would have to control to be able to control legislation, and ask yourself how many members of congress have things to hide.