From the article: "The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of
unstructured text, blogs and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help
military analysts predict the future and make decisions faster.
The search is part of the Office of Naval Research's "Data to Decisions"
program, a series of three-to-10-year initiatives
that will address the volume of information that threatens to overwhelm
planners in the digital age, contract databases indicate. The goal is to build
an open source system that can unite various tools that collect, manage and
draw relationships between data sets." Read more
