00
The Washington DC Metro region is quickly becoming the East Coast hub of technology innovation. Comparisons to the burgeoning startup scene in Silicon Valley ten years ago are now commonplace. However, tech companies inside the beltway play by a very different set of rules compared to their more relaxed counterparts in sunny California. Where the… Read more »
Terrible atrocities are a sobering part of daily life for people located in conflict zones. 67% of the world’s atrocities since 1945 have occurred in the context of an armed conflict, according to Alex J. Bellamy of the Stanley Foundation. Due to the high level of danger in these regions, obtaining reliable information needed to… Read more »
Team Praescient will play a critical role at Palantir’s upcoming GovCon, the company’s premier showcase convention, on Tuesday. Our analysts will be featured in both main stage presentations and breakout sessions (pdf). On the main stage, our consultants will present a session on “Collaborative and Real-Time Intelligence Investigations at the US Bureau of Immigration and… Read more »
In 2008, the United States imposed strict sanctions on Iran’s principle international shipping organization, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), due to its involvement in weapons trafficking. To circumvent these sanctions, IRISL developed a complex corporate shell structure around its ships to mask its shipping activities. Despite the best efforts of the U.S…. Read more »
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 »
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 »