But there are those who scoff at the idea that the federal intelligence community isn’t well-equipped, technologically speaking, to handle the data integration challenges – “I’m sure today’s intelligence agents have state-of-the-art analysis tools, since after all, if they don’t have them, then who does?” wrote ZapThink’s Jason Bloomberg. They tend to see the problem as a more complicated combination of ineffective policies, processes and governance, more than integration. Or – in the case of InformationWeek’s John Foley – a combination of all of the above.

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