The Department of Defense (DOD) is quickly reaching an information technology (IT) crossroad; its choices will determine whether it achieves decisional superiority or becomes paralyzed and drowns in its own data. Information management technologies and practices currently used to exploit the exponentially growing volumes of data are rapidly becoming inadequate. For instance, a battalion intelligence analyst requires time-critical information spread across 200 different networks in 20 different languages. Upon uncovering a bad lot of batteries, a satellite program manager must survey 15...