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Systems theory predominantly refers to the interdisciplinary field of studying the interconnection of complex systems and their interdependent parts. Theorists and practitioners alike analyze the principles common to all complex systems, such as physiology and biology, and the models which can be used to describe them. This theoretical framework has been applied successfully to develop… Read more »
This month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN proposed new regulation mandating additional due diligence obligations on the financial sector that would; (i) codify, clarify, consolidate, and strengthen existing CDD regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations, and (ii) establish a categorical requirement for financial institutions to identify beneficial ownership… Read more »
In this demonstration, Team Praescient leverages Palantir to conduct relational analysis and data management to ensure information assurance and a vulnerability assessment of a company’s network and physical security protocol. The assessment consists of many phases including network penetration testing and the physical access of secured buildings, and is undertaken in order to provide recommendations… Read more »
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and deadliest hurricane in American history. All told, Katrina caused $108 billion in damage and precipitated 1,833 confirmed fatalities. The catastrophic effects of this storm, and its fall-out across the Gulf, were at a scale unknown to the existing federal, state, and local disaster response infrastructure. Immediately, the high volume… Read more »
Kapow Software, who Praescient has worked with on several analytic projects and demonstrations, provides unprecedented agility in delivering IT solutions to urgent business demands for application integration, including cloud integration, process automation, content migration, mobile-enablement, business intelligence and web intelligence. In this demonstration, Kapow utilized a mashup server development environment to create mashup components, which… Read more »
Team Praescient often joins together to watch classic World War II movies like To Hell and Back and old cowboy flicks – one of our favorites is High Noon – after a week’s worth of hard work. Our analysts and engineers consider themselves lifelong learners, so we like to mix up our selection and pull… Read more »
As the Chinese proverb says, “A spectator sees more than a player in the heat of a game.” Researchers and analysts have the privilege, often times, of working with the fuller picture and in hindsight while striving to arrive at objective conclusions. When conducting trending analysis, this privilege serves as a valuable tool for providing… Read more »
An analyst may begin by asking this question in another way; “Why would terrorist organizations and illicit actors not work together? Our approach to assessing this type of relationship depends not entirely on the nature of what a terrorist organization or illicit network is, by definition, but also on the methodologies these entities and actors… Read more »
In early August of 2011, England experienced a wave of riots that shocked the country and cost millions of pounds worth in property damage and looted goods. Rioters showed no regard for the rule of law as they ransacked shops and torched cars and buildings in numerous boroughs. The surprisingly violent riots challenged law enforcement’s… Read more »
At Praescient, we work collaboratively to solve the Nation’s most pressing problems. To achieve our aim of revolutionizing how people leverage information, we often begin by challenging one another to informal debates. It is fairly easy to begin one, since our office space is entirely an open-floor plan with brain boards (i.e. whiteboards) and “sync”… Read more »