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By Charlie Caris Praescient attended the Defense Strategies Institute (DSI) GEOINT and Open Source Analytics Summit, held on 25-26 October in Alexandria, VA. The summit was to engage key leaders from across the intelligence and defense community about how they plan to integrate the growing universe of Publicly Available Information (PAI) into their infrastructure and… Read more »
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 »
By Zachary Beus In today’s international arena of cut-throat politics, diplomacy, and war, the internet is playing an important role in the way that the United States postures itself. Conscience of its impact, the US uses the internet to increase global economic output, build sustainable relationships with foreign governments, and solve some of the world’s… Read more »
By Zachary Beus Recently released data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program showed double digit increases in violent crimes, to include homicide, in major US cities including Milwaukee, Baltimore and Chicago in 2015 when compared to the previous year [1]. Given this, cities like Los Angeles and others are… 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 As my summer internship at Praescient Analytics’ headquarters in Alexandria, VA comes to a close, I am more convinced than ever that technology-assisted data analysis is the future of private and public sector intelligence and growth. While some believe that these new technologies will render slices of the human workforce unnecessary in… Read more »
By Kristina Lorch The devastating suicide attack that killed over 40 individuals and wounded hundreds more at Turkey’s Ataturk Airport last month was another in a growing string of atrocities carried out against airports and mass transit systems around the globe. While airport security organizations such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have introduced new… 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 »