The Pentagon is hunting ISIS using big data and machine learning

We want to be smarter about what we're doing," he told Defense One. The idea is to reduce the amount of time analysts spend performing administrative tasks, like manually entering data into spreadsheets whenever they find something of interest, and more time actually analyzing. Should this program meet with success, Shanahan hopes to expand Project Maven's machine learning efforts throughout the rest of the armed services. For the department... logistics, command and control, communications," Shanahan told Defense One.