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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?
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(Score: 2) by davester666 on Sunday June 28 2015, @08:16AM
Will everyone please form a line to the left, and then proceed to receive your camera, which you must immediately affix to your person. It is mandatory to report back each day for the camera to be replaced with a new one. Failure to receive and affix the camera, or not reporting back, or reporting back with a broken/nonfunctional camera will result in your immediate detention as a known terrorist.
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday July 01 2015, @02:05PM
"In how many other ways could the Director of the NSA gain a new perspective on the world?"
Perhaps this can be done by extraction of his head from the place he keeps his hemorrhoids?
You're betting on the pantomime horse...