Tom Soderstrom: So, NASA has been known as the big data people. If you look at success, its past successes as a predictor, past successes are also an inhibitor. So part of what we’re doing is we’re learning new technology, and it’s a really big deal. Big data is way overhyped and that’s a wonderful thing, because all of the venture capital is flowing into startups and they come up with new ways of visualizing data for instance. So how it's impacting program strategies is really what Mercedes said, data becomes the center, not the processing. So what we’re looking is, we have hundreds and hundreds of petabytes already and we are in about a month or so, unless there's another a delay, we’ll launch something called OPALS. And OPALS is really a lasercomm to space. Right now the height that’s inhibiting us is radio frequency. We can only pump so much data, and even with our big antenna. It’s going to increase hundreds of thousand fold and we are already overflowing. So our normal traditional way is not going to work, so we’re looking at clouds. For the program strategies, clouds are the number one thing for us, also something we call the dark data. What dark data is - it's all of the data, data tends to be siloed and stored today, science mission will think of their data, and engineers will think of their data, but we’ve never been able to look at the dark data that’s in between them, or the dark data that we never even knew they existed before. So a strategy radius about rapid prototyping now, it’s about trying it, trying this new technology, the new mindset. We have a data scientist, we’re hiring a data scientist in each department. We believe that there isn’t one data scientist, there is a business data scientist, an IT data scientist etc. They form a team to look at this dark data to now move the processing, as Mercedes said, to the data, and we can get very very rapid insight. So I’ll do a teaser about startup mentality, talk about that.
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