Even railroads, a 19th-century technology, are getting more high-tech intelligence.
High-tech intelligence fusion centers, for example, cannot be constrained to terrorism alone.
The assistance included American aid to develop telephone and e-mail tapping and a high-tech intelligence center to track criminals.
A significant shift of high-tech intelligence resources from Iraq to Afghanistan, initiated by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander, is also having benefits.
It turns out that we didn't miss anything too crucial or exciting, though "Origins" is no worse than average among the class of shows — "24," "The Unit," "MI5" — that mix high-tech intelligence gathering with bloody commando action.
The government has sharply increased spending on high-tech intelligence gathering since 2001, and both the Bush and Obama administrations have chosen to rely on private contractors like Booz Allen for much of the resulting work.
But the core of the deal looks likely to be militaristic, focusing on giving Mexico's troops an overwhelming advantage by providing them with high-tech intelligence systems and massive amounts of firepower.
No matter that his generals, allies and counter-insurgency manuals told him that it was impossible to defeat fanaticism without changing public opinion; the master of military transformation would "drain the swamp" in Iraq (and the wider Muslim world) through superior firepower, high-tech intelligence and incarceration.
As The New York Times noted: The government has sharply increased spending on high-tech intelligence gathering since 2001, and both the Bush and Obama administrations have chosen to rely on private contractors like Booz Allen for much of the resulting work.
If you live, work and pay taxes in the EU, every year part of your salary goes towards maintaining its extensive border security system, characterized by border patrols, robots and high-tech intelligence networks.
That paradox echoes around the globe: While governments may spend heavily on high-tech intelligence and security programs, most are still struggling to update the unwieldy IT systems that run almost everything else.
