
Multifunctional Materials and Structures ($23M): Create design methodology for synthetic materials, and build materials/systems that demonstrate multi-functionality value to DoD.įocusing only on projects which are specified as a core Big Data Program shows DARPA budgeting numbers of $97M/$118M/$165M over FY14/FY15/FY16, respectively, despite removing PlanX from the budgeting see.PlanX ($25M): A program to develop technologies to operate on the cyber battlefront in a similar way that the military has developed tools and technologies to support kinetic warfare.Wireless Network Defense ($35M): Develop new technologies and protocols for robust control of wireless networks, focusing particularly on securing current and next-generation products.


I would posit a slightly different interpretation: as Big Data has normalized, considering Big Data as its own topic has been eschewed in exchange for considering its various theories (data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, etc.) and resulting technologies (Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, etc.) as their own entities. An in-depth look of how Big Data fell off Gartner’s list is available for purchase (or via a Gartner account), but for those whose pocketbooks or (organizations’ pocketbooks) don’t allow, multiple avenues have indicated that the Internet of Things have emerged to take over Big Data’s hype. So is Big Data dead? Not so says Gartner analyst Nick Heudecker, whose blog post is entitled “Big Data Isn’t Obsolete. In 2014, Big Data was at the edge of the Peak of Inflated Expectations, where the hype has already generated an enormous amount of goodwill through amazing success stories, and on a descent towards the Trough of Disillusionment, where the rate of new successes relative to the Peak creates a depressed sense of its novelty.

The Gartner Hype Cycle, which assigns emerging technologies into 5 regions: Innovation Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations, Trough of Disillusionment, Slope of Enlightenment and Plateau of Productivity.
