The Defense Intelligence Agency is overhauling two critical but aging intelligence systems along with its strategy and organizational structure to enhance the organizations ability to provide essential intelligence on militaries around the world. Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, USA, the director for the agency commonly known as DIA, lists modernization of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) as a top priority, along with the continued development of the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System (MARS). The JWICS is a top-secret intranet administered by DIA for the intelligence community. MARS is a cloud computing-based system that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically sift through reams of data, performing mundane analysis and freeing up intelligence analysts to perform more complex analysis. The DIA director notes that the agency has a five-year plan to modernize JWICS, which he describes as a top-secret super information highway. "It's a key piece of everything that we do here. It's key for the intelligence community and our nation. What we want to do is make sure it's the most secure it can be, that we modernize it with tech refresh and that as the Defense Department moves to its cloud instantiation, however that looks, that we're at pace with that."
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