Excella recently won a $49.5 million contract to support the work of the agency's Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate.

AI could provide some big gains for the DoD, but not without the structured data and the data scientists to fuel it.

At the CIA, everybody must learn to work with data and technology, from agents and analysts to operators and engineers.

And here's how Michael Conlin intends to tackle it.

A tsunami of data is driving the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's embrace not only of AI, but also its pursuit of more data scientists.

Investments are undergirded by a surge in IT spending, with 14 percent growth between 2016 and 2017.