
The Department of Defense plans to launch a project this year to improve its ability to use the vast amounts of intelligence data it collects, a DoD official said March 17.Despite major advances in automation in recent years, DoD’s processing, exploitation and dissemination (PED) efforts are still too labor-intensive and lag far behind those of the private sector, said Air Force Lt. Gen. John “Jack” Shanahan, director for defense intelligence (warfighter support) in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense…