Gus Hunt, CTO of the CIA presentation at the 2012 Government Big Data Forum. Mr. Hunt currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In this capacity, Mr. Hunt is responsible for setting the strategic technology direction to enable CIA's missions, for driving the rapid insertion and adoption of new capabilities to keep pace with technology change in the commercial sector, and for engaging actively across the IC to share and communicate IT solutions. Mr. Hunt joined the CIA in 1985 as an analyst and subsequently served in varied technical leadership roles including Director of Applications Services, Director of Architecture and Systems Engineering (ASE), Chair of the CIA Architecture Review Board and the Architecture and Systems Engineers Occupational Panel, and Chief of the CIO's Advanced Technology Group within the Directorate of Intelligence (DI). Mr. Hunt also served as Chief of Research and Development for the Director of Central Intelligence's (DCI) Crime and Narcotics Center and Deputy Chief of the Operations Support Group in the DCI's Non-Proliferation Center. Before joining the Agency in 1985, Mr. Hunt spent seven years in the private sector as an Aerospace Engineer designing advanced manned space flight systems and satellite orbital transfer vehicles. He holds a ME in Civil/Structural Engineering from Vanderbilt University and is married with two grown children.

1. Next
Beyond Big Data:
Riding the
Technology Wave
Ira A. (Gus) Hunt
Chief Technology Officer

2. Profound
Change
is under way
1

3. Social
Mobile
Cloud
2

4. 3

5. 4

6. Altered the
Flow
of Information
5

7. Nano
Bio
Sensors
6

8. 7

9. The Internet of Things
8

10. Big Data
9

11. The
Problem
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12. Our Problem: Which 5K
1 Don’t know the future value of a dot today
2 We cannot connect dots we don’t have
3 The old collect, winnow, dissem model
fails spectacularly in the Big Data world
The few cannot know the needs of the many
Secure the data, Connect the data, Empower the user

13. New
Computing
Architectures
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14. New Fields of
Expertise
Data Scientist
Information Engineer
13

15. 6,998,329,787
is a small number
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16. High Noon
in the
Information Age
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17. It is nearly within our grasp
to compute on all human
generated information
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18. FaceBook
> 1 billion users by
August
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19. The inanimate is rapidly
becoming sentient
Smarter Planet
Cars drive themselves
Machines know your needs
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20. 3 rd
Wave of
Computing
Learning Machines
Watson
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21. Technology is moving
faster than government
can keep up
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22. How can we successfully
navigate and operate in this
new world??
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23. Our Approach
1 Know the Business
2 Set an overarching Strategy
3 Establish a Framework for execution
4 Fund and Implement with Intent

24. Our Mission
We are the nation's first line of defense. We accomplish
what others cannot accomplish and go where others
cannot go. We carry out our mission by:
Collecting information that reveals the plans, intentions and
capabilities of our adversaries and provides the basis for
decision and action.
Producing timely analysis that provides insight, warning and
opportunity to the President and decisionmakers charged with
protecting and advancing America's interests.
Conducting covert action at the direction of the President to
preempt threats or achieve US policy objectives.

25. 4 Big Bets
1 Big Data
– Acquire, federate, and position for multiple constituencies to securely
exploit. Grow the haystack, magnify the needles.
2 Operational Excellence
– Innovate infrastructure operations and provisioning, create an
authoritative source on our asset base, and run IT like a business.
3 Serve CIA by supporting the IC
– Assume a leadership role in IC activities that matter to CIA
– Build capabilities assuming they will be shared
4 Talent Management
– Focus on continuous learning and diversity of thought, experience,
background

26. 5 Key Technology Enablers
1 Advanced Mission Analytics
– World-class abilities to discover patterns, correlate information, understand plans
and intentions, and find and identify operational targets in a sea of data
2 Enterprise Widgets and Services
– A customizable, integrated and adaptive webtop that lets analysts, ops
officers, and targeters to ―have it their way‖.
3 Security
–
as a Service
One environment, all data, protected and secure using common security
services such as: ubiquitous encryption, enterprise authentication, audit,
4
DRM, secure ID propagation, and Gold Version C&A.
Enterprise Data Management--the Data Harbor
– An ultra-high performance data environment that enables CIA missions to
acquire, federate, and position and securely exploit huge volumes data.
5 Cloud Computing
– Ruthlessly standardized, rigorously automated, dynamic and elastic commodity
computing environment. Massive capacity ahead of demand. Speed for
mission need.

27. Our Accelerated Technology
Adoption Process
1 Discover the Opportunities (100)
2 Evaluate claims versus Reality (30)
3 Pilot with the Mission (10)
4 Implement (5)

28. Discover
Active External Engagement
VCs Mission Link
Commercial Labs Tech Connect
Government Labs IC Partners
In-Q-Tel Other Agencies
USG Contractors Universities
Tech Expo Road Trips
Showcase Contracts

29. Evaluate
Unclassified and Classified Evaluation
Facilities
iLab—unclassified, lots of data, variable
hardware
Eval—high-side, on-desktop, real data, real
users, defined hardware
NEAT—contracting mechanism to bring in
capabilities from non-traditional vendors

30. Pilot
Real Problems, Real Users,
Focused Outcomes
I2—the original IC “Cloud” proof of concept pilot
Mass Analytics Cloud (MAC)—high-side, big-
data, real problems
Training—Cloudera, Hadoop, Developing for the
Cloud
Road Trips—expose the pilot teams to best
practices across sectors

31. Implement
Becoming part of our DNA
It’s not just about Technology
 People and skills
 Architecture
 Governance
 Process
 Ruthless Standardization
 Complete change in
Applications Development—
think small, think horizontal
 Costing models
 Contracting models

32. Closing
Thoughts
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33. Challenges Ahead
• It’s all about speed, latency breeds contempt
• Build a continuous learning organization
• Embrace continuous change
• Agility--become an ―Ahead of‖ organization
• Software licensing—metered services and
use, not ELAs