Universal connectivity and the advance of communication systems has allowed machine data to be generated by the movement of ships, aircrafts and vehicles, satellites in space, drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), reconnaissance aircrafts, sensors and Battle Field Surveillance Radars (BFSR).

Human generated data include data from social media sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Business data is generated from all e-commerce transactions. The rise of possibilities to stream such data in real time from multiple sources has raised the need to be able to promptly and effectively analyse those data for national decision-making, military operations and better situational awareness in the future, especially at the national and joint Services levels.