{"id":12664,"date":"2020-01-15T21:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/15\/where-to-store-all-this-intelligence-data-how-about-dna\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:47:22","slug":"where-to-store-all-this-intelligence-data-how-about-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2020\/01\/15\/where-to-store-all-this-intelligence-data-how-about-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to store all this intelligence data? How about DNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Data is a massive problem for the intelligence community. From the satellite images produced by the National Reconnaissance Office to the bulk communications data swept up by the National Security Agency, the intelligence community is collecting more information than ever before. But where to store it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data centers are massive warehouses and megawatts of power. The resource-intensive nature of these facilities makes them difficult to scale, and ultimately unprepared for a torrent of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity\u2014the organization charged with tackling some of the intelligence community\u2019s most difficult problems\u2014thinks it has a solution: synthetic DNA. On Jan. 15, IARPA officially launched the Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program, an effort to use synthetic DNA to store exabytes (one million terabytes) of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\t