The customers in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense that ISS services have a big data challenge.  The sheer volume of data being produced, and ultimately consumed by large enterprise systems has grown exponentially in a short amount of time.  Providing analysts the ability to interpret meaning, and act on time-critical information is a top priority for ISS.  In this talk, we will explore our journey into building a search and discovery system for our customers that combines a variety of Apache eco-system components - Apache Solr, OpenNLP, UIMA, Tika, Jackrabbit, and Hadoop to enable analysts to "Shrink the Haystack" into actionable information.