Analysts will be plenty busy at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new St. Louis campus , but they won’t use their powerful workstations around the clock. So General Dynamics Information Technology is helping NGA stitch together the high-end PCs so their unused compute power can be harnessed even when their humans are elsewhere.

“There's a lot of [NGA] analysts that call the St. Louis area home, and as a part of moving into a new facility, they'll be outfitted with all new IT at their desks,” Will Clapperton, a GDIT vice-president for geospatial services and solutions, told Defense One . “That analyst isn't going to be sitting there 24 hours a day. Maybe they're there eight hours or 10 hours, and then that machine is idle and has the ability to do other things. So, what we'

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