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By Charlie Caris Culturally, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) practitioners are not respected within the intelligence community. They don’t review sensitive HUMINT reports from the field, exploit foreign cyber infrastructure, or review battle damage assessments from aerial drone footage. However, the work of an OSINT professional, scouring the internet, social media, and other sources of publicly… Read more »
By Charlie Caris Praescient officially launched the International Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism Capacity-Building Clearinghouse Mechanism (ICCM) at the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) Coordinating Committee Meeting and the United Nations Ministerial Meeting, held in New York City in September 2016. As part of the Creative Associates International (CAI) implementing team, Praescient supported the presentation of… Read more »
Praescient attended our strategic partner Institute for the Study of War’s Inaugural Security Conference, held on September 14, 2016, in Washington, DC. The conference, entitled “Rethinking US Grand Strategy,” featured senior US military officials and national security policymakers who offered their perspectives on the future of the military’s strategic outlook. During the course of the… Read more »
By Kristina Lorch Parsing an ever-increasing volume of digitized data presents a monumental task for private and public sector organizations whose traditional workflows often constrain analysts. To fill the gap between the demands of big data and dearth of systems properly equipped to exploit it, experts in the field have expounded upon current models of… Read more »
This post originally appeared on The American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. Full size image available here. By Brenna Snyder, Praescient Analytst Consultant, and Emily Estelle, AEI Analyst June 2, 2016 The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are competing to be the dominant Salafi-jihadi group in… Read more »
In May 2016 the RAND Corporation published the book Foundations of the Islamic State: Money, Management, and Terror in Iraq 2005-2010, the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the RAND Corporation, DARPA, Princeton University, Praescient Analytics, Palantir, and the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The project team worked with the Defense community to declassify… Read more »
In April 2016 West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) released preliminary analysis of over 4,600 unique ISIS administrative records, the largest such collection ever circulated in open sources. The majority of these records, originally delivered to NBC News by an ISIS defector, consisted of entry forms for foreign fighters joining the Islamic State. The leaks… Read more »
By: Evan Sterling, Analyst Consultant; Praescient Analytics One of the most important aspects of any big data project is data modeling. Data modeling creates the structure your data will live in. It defines how things are labeled and organized, which determines how your data can and will be used and ultimately what story that information… Read more »
This September marks the planned window for Admiral William McRaven, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, to explain his vision for the “global SOF network” – that is, a collaborative network of U.S. military, interagency partners, and international special operations forces that are directly linked to exchange information and intelligence. The goal of this network… Read more »
Last week I attended a CSIS event highlighting the completion of their report, “Trends in Militancy across South Asia,” which highlighted roughly sixteen months of research and field visits to a region that is consistently – but perhaps more now than ever – on the brink. Although the authors and other invited speakers had many… Read more »