Posted on May 19, 2016
Inside the government's secret NSA program to target terrorists | Fox News
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"The NSA's goal was to compress the timeline for crunching all this information from a period of weeks or days, to just hours or minutes.
[NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett] said the program harnessed big data, in a way that it could be used immediately on the battlefield. Ledgett said RT-RG ‘integrated hundreds of pieces of information,’ and then software was developed to draw connections that could ‘put things on graphical displays’ so it was easy for analysts and operators to understand.
Ledgett said one of the commanding generals in Iraq during the surge credited the NSA with helping take over 4,000 insurgents off the battlefield."
[NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett] said the program harnessed big data, in a way that it could be used immediately on the battlefield. Ledgett said RT-RG ‘integrated hundreds of pieces of information,’ and then software was developed to draw connections that could ‘put things on graphical displays’ so it was easy for analysts and operators to understand.
Ledgett said one of the commanding generals in Iraq during the surge credited the NSA with helping take over 4,000 insurgents off the battlefield."
Inside the government's secret NSA program to target terrorists | Fox News
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Getting good info in a timely manner is essential. However, Will it be acted on is the question ? After all whom has the final decision ?
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Capt Seid Waddell
SGT John " Mac " McConnell, according to the article, the information is given directly to the operational forces - troops on the ground or pilots in the air - for targeting and force protection purposes. In some cases this means a heads-up on ambushes ahead or location of hostile forces.
This article was brought to my attention by a man that has been working in this field since our Viet Nam days.
This article was brought to my attention by a man that has been working in this field since our Viet Nam days.
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Different strategies that will help defeat terrorism should be considered.
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