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: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday June 28 2015, @10:45PM
This is really one of the reasons why people come here from other news aggregators, get one look then back away to never return.
Because you never see irrational nonsense elsewhere?
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Monday June 29 2015, @12:42AM
No, but the smell of feet sticks out a lot more here than most other places, if you catch my drift.