The Pentagon is hunting ISIS using big data and machine learning

Military and civilian intelligence analysts "overwhelmed" by the sheer volume of video surveillance data recorded over the America's numerous military incursions against ISIS will soon get some relief. The Pentagon announced on Monday that it is tasking its newly-minted Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team (AWCFT), dubbed Project Maven, with using big data and machine learning to accelerate the process of discovering actionable intelligence in all that aerial imagery. There's simply too much incoming information for the Pentagon's stable of analysts, says. "We're not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem...That's the last thing that we actually want to do. We want to be smarter about what we're doing," he told Defense One.