Dave Bottom: Oh Thanks, Jim.
JIm Flyzik: Sure.
Dave Bottom: Well first of, NGI - National Geospatial Intelligence agency. We are both - the member of intelligence community and also a combat support agency. So the way we are approaching big data, of course it is to use it and leverage it in order to deliver better intelligence for our decision makers, and these decision makers run the gamut from policy makers (certainly here in town) to warfighter, to first responders. So there is a lot of disparate customer base that is using our information. And examples first off are certainly the explosion in sensors. So like Zack and Noah we have been in the remote sensing business for an awfully long time, from a space and air standpoint, but look at the sensors there are out there now... In terms of what is being proliferated. So how do we leverage that information in order to deliver more accurate and actionable intelligences is certainly the challenge for NGI, moving forward.
JIm Flyzik: All that machine data that is being generated that can be integrated now to produce valuable information.
Dave Bottom: So how is this impacting us? It really caused us to go back and look in terms of what we are leveraging and where we innovate, so the way we have treated IT, both from a mission and corporate standpoint is delivering systems, right? But that’s not really where the advantage is. We want to leverage much more industry solutions that are out there and really where we want to innovate is in how we understand the data that we are looking at. So that is where we are really targeting our innovation.
JIm Flyzik: Terrific, well said.
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