For the last few years in the commercial industry, the big topic of conversation has been around big data’s impact to return on investment while increasing the bottom line. A recent report predicts the data lake market will balloon more than 250% to $20.1 billion by 2024. Why is such a hot approach to using data not being deployed within our vital federal and defense sectors? In an industry where the ability to ingest, analyze and act on data could mean the difference in mission-critical efforts, why hasn’t the Defense Department taken advantage of data lakes? The ability to share information about fleets, weapons systems, supply chain and adversarial intelligence is too much of a draw to ignore the power of a data lake.
Some of the past challenges that have surely hindered the military from harnessing data lakes can be understood by looking at a few key factors:
Legacy systems and older infrastructures to workaround.
Highly classified data and data silos.
Interoperability issues and multiple vendors deployed.
Size of data and existing bandwidth in the federal and defense sectors.
Understanding how and what to prioritize.
Disconnect in collaborative usage across the various aspects of the military.
Advantages of Data Lakes in the DOD and Federal Sector
Past criticisms of data lakes are that they often become a massive “data graveyard” where everything gets thrown without rhyme or reason. Part of the reason the commercial sector uses data lakes is just that: to create a crater that collects data of diverse types from all sources.
A major benefit for all military branches in using data lakes is access to a data source that is rich in diversity but also well-aligne ..
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