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.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

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.

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

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.

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.