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Increasingly, federal agencies are tapping the power of big data and analytics to better perform a myriad of tasks, including predicting killer tornadoes, thwarting terrorist operations and disrupting the networks in Iraq and Afghanistan that build improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
As most of the East Coast hunkers down and braces for  Hurricane Sandy , what better time to tell you how federal  data scientists  are using  data analysis  to track weather events, among other things?
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In the past, the CIA has been criticized for not sharing data with other agencies in the wake of events like the 2009 attempt by a Nigerian man to detonate plastic explosives aboard a Northwest Airlines flight. In fact, the overwhelming volume of data flowing into the agency has been blamed for the security mishap. That’s according to Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, country inn and suites in pigeon forge tennesee former country inn and suites in pigeon forge tennesee director of the CIA and the National Security Agency.
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Ira “Gus” Hunt, the CIA’s chief technology officer, has said publicly that the  CIA is using big data tools  and  data analysis  to slash the time it takes to process information. Two years ago it took the CIA 63 days to process collected data; the agency country inn and suites in pigeon forge tennesee now can do this in 27 minutes, according to Hunt.
For its part, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)  is using big data tools like data analytics  and  data mining country inn and suites in pigeon forge tennesee  to connect data from multiple sources to create counter measures for dealing with IEDs, disrupt the networks that build them and better train troops on the ground to deal with the deadly devices, says James Craft, the organization’s chief information officer.
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