> You should never outsource your value proposition. I really liked that. Well said. As for the NSA issuing statements of any kind, I just ignore them these d

> You should never outsource your value proposition. I really liked that. Well said. As for the NSA issuing statements of any kind, I just ignore them these days. I can't speak as to the requirements in terms of managing large systems of compute clusters, but I will speculate that no matter how "smart" their algos are, at some point, they've got to have a few hundred devoted souls doing QA/QC... probably young Air Force recruits. I simply do not believe they're getting value out of the data without substantial QA/QC. Alternatively, perhaps they're simply not getting any real value out of the system because it doesn't really work as a sieve. If you already have a target, then parallel construction is probably greatly improved.