Official Addresses SOCOM Challenges

At the chapter's April luncheon, Col. Matthew Atkins, USAF, chief, Intelligence Capabilities and Requirements Division (J-24), U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), discussed some of the challenges SOCOM faces as it tries to align its investments in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. Specifically, the talk focused on how the command hopes to use innovations to solve some big-data problems and how communications and processing technology are critical to how intelligence is collected in the future. Col. Atkins wrapped up the discussion by outlining some of the areas that SOCOM is seeking assistance from the information technology industry, specifically in data transport, compression, advanced analytics and improved sensor technology.

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