Yeah, the amount of data entry I had to do by hand was killer. I eventually got a Linux laptop cleared, set up scripts to scrape data and generate briefings, do

Yeah, the amount of data entry I had to do by hand was killer. I eventually got a Linux laptop cleared, set up scripts to scrape data and generate briefings, documents, formatted images. My productivity went up so much (a week's worth of work in a couple hours) that my command started an investigation to see if I was siphoning off my work load to other shops. When they figured out I was just automating everything, they shut it down because the "software was not government approved" lol. So much for military intelligence...