DOD's Work: Automated data can help beat ISIS -- FCW

"We are absolutely certain that the use of deep-learning machines is going to allow us to have a better understanding of ISIS as a network, and a better understanding of how we can target it precisely and lead to its defeat," Work said March 30 at an event hosted by The Washington Post. Work said he recently met with a firm in Silicon Valley that can crunch vast amounts of social media data to deliver insights. The firm used its analytics capability to recount in real time how a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down, according to Work. An official investigation concluded that a Russian Buk missile downed the airplane over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people. Courtney Hillson, told FCW the company he referred to is Orbital Insight, a geospatial data firm.