In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.