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Technology, training and improvisation were the real backbone of the network.

For the first time in seven years, practices necessitate a major
 revision to official directions.

This rarely happens, but for 2014, defense and technology analysts are in agreement that big data and cybersecurity are the two drivers in planning and investment for information technology, both in government and in industry. Most everything else will be enabling these two key capabilities. While much attention has been focused on the threats and work being done globally on cybersecurity, I want to focus on big data.

Big data is critical because, unless it is collected, analyzed, managed and made ubiquitously available, many analysts and decision makers will be buried in information they cannot use effectively in a timely fashion. It also is the starting and ending point for many of the technologies and capabilities we care about: networks, data centers, cloud initiatives, storage, search, analytics and secure access

Budget turmoil challenges reform.

Look no further than the vast region for a menu of geopolitical and military issues.

Military people like to look at themselves, and it has nothing to do with vanity. Rather, it is about improving, but the attention is not always welcome at the business end. Senior personnel offer the usual advice: Cooperate and learn. Do not be defensive. Looking at ourselves can only make us better, so we go along with it. And often—not always, but enough to matter—we find out important facts we did not know.

Largely, by adjusting to accommodate new ISR requirements.

The explosion in collection devices is changing the face of information processing.

Technology may reduce the size, weight and power for military and commercial electronics.

DHS secretary calls for appropriations bill to further beef up border protection.