U.S. Army Spc. Jantzen Weight, a intelligence analyst assigned to Delta Company, 227th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Hawaii Army National Guard, plots way-points during the day land navigation portion of the annual Top Intelligence (TOPINT) 2024 competition on Schofield Barracks, Jan. 23, 2024. The TOPINT 2024 tested U.S. Army intelligence Soldiers within their field of expertise in basic warrior tasks and drills and military occupational specialty operations. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Foster)
Members of the 18th Space Defense Combat Squadron, a unit assigned to U.S. Space Forces – Space under the USSF Force Generation model, observe orbital data at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Oct. 4, 2024. (Space Force photo by David Dozoretz)
U.S. airmen participate in the Tactical Operations Center-Light experiment at the 805th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis, Capstone 24A experimentation event at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 28, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Keith Keel)
U.S. Air Force F-16 Falcons from Ellington Field, Texas, receive fuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 from the 117th Air Refueling Wing, Alabama on June 13, 2023.(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Faddis.)
Sgt. Victor Sanchez, a fire direction coordinator assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Artillery Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)
Army Chief Data and Analytics Officer David Markowitz told DefenseScoop the goal for Army Data Platform 2.0 is to offer users new capabilities from multiple vendors.
U.S. Marines assigned to Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, carry their bags to a landing craft, utility attached to Assault Craft Unit 1 before departing the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) in the Pacific Ocean Nov. 23, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Helms)
A woman walks under a sign of big data analytics US software company Palantir at their stand ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 22, 2022. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)