Pentagon plans 'war-cloud' computing system for the military

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure -- or JEDI -- will store and crunch vast amounts of classified data and let the military use artificial intelligence to speed up war planning and enhance fighting capabilities. Think of it as "The Terminator" meets your iCloud. The robots aren't taking over just yet, but the Pentagon could be bringing us one step closer, thanks to a new project dubbed the "War Cloud." The official name is JEDI: Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, a plan by the Pentagon to build a cloud computing system for the military. The so-called "War Cloud" will store and crunch vast amounts of classified data and let the military use artificial intelligence to speed up war planning, and enhance fighting capabilities. It can also be used for strategic war games, playing out potential conflilcts in a virtual world to give us an early look at what the outcome could be.