Developing the concepts and means to selectively and rapidly move accurate information across a vast, secure cyberspace, while accurately fusing intelligence, detecting information deception, securing credible knowledge sources, and employing the laws of probability are the technical challenges for the next 30 years. Our Strategic Vision remains containment through deterrence. As we step into the new millennium, and especially as we look to 2025, information dominance becomes the blueprint for success in maintaining global peace. All segments of the pyramid are interactive, and these interactions take place in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. For example, synthesized data flows upward to fuel new knowledge and wisdom, which then refines or defines new needs statements that flow downward and drive the gathering of new data.
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The process is highly dynamic. On the horizontal plane, data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, combined with instincts and experience, are freely shared and exchanged in a virtual and highly interactive process. It is the integration and cooperation of the various levels and dimensions that add the value to the top-sight model. Patterns of activities and trends also emerge from these levels. These are the levels where other sensors can be cued and interested parties alerted to ongoing activities and changes in the environment.