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

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.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

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.

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

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.