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Does anyone else get the feeling this sort of software is probably sold for tons of money but rarely useful? I could be way off here but just from glancing at
by barmstrong 16y ago
Does anyone else get the feeling this sort of software is probably sold for tons of money but rarely useful? I could be way off here but just from glancing at it, it looks like one of those things that is probably too complicated for the average government employee to use. So they end up having to hire outside consultants or something. It looks like a research tool that is one step removed from the lab.
- elblanco 16y agoMost of the people that will be using this tool are intel analysts. Most intel analysts used to be in the military at some point. To be an intel analyst in the military you have to score relatively high on a test called the ASVAB (basically an aptitude test). There's still lots of old guard in the field who can't work a mouse, but the recent crop of analysts were all trained and worked on systems of similar complexity and size (ASAS, JIOC, DCGS, etc.). In other words, we're not talking about the typical government paper pusher. That being said, it's still a complicated tool requiring the training and understanding of some pretty complicated concepts that most analysts don't know about or understand (like ontologies).