The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency built a much bigger data center than it needed, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office, which noted NGA had not used an entire floor of of a four-story technology center it intended for data storage. But NGA sees it differently, arguing that expanding data-storage requirements, driven by data collection from the proliferating use of remote sensors and the move to cloud computing, required NGA to build out the unused space to accommodate increasing volumes of data. Read More