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IC CIO Sherman sets focus on 'explosion' of publicly available intelligence data

FedScoop: Intelligence agencies often stake their reputations on collecting and sharing classified information. But it’s the “explosion in publicly available information” of late that has caught the attention of John Sherman, the intelligence community’s CIO.

This boom in unclassified data “can greatly enhance our intelligence, law enforcement and other national security missions,” Sherman said during a panel Wednesday at the 2018 Digital Transformation Summit presented by Dell Technologies and produced by FedScoop. “Integrating it with our other classification layers can bring [artificial intelligence] and [machine learning] and all these other capabilities to bear.”

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