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First, we want to extend our thoughts to all organizations and their families during COVID-19. We hope all are staying safe and wanted to say Thank You to those personnel who continue to be on the frontlines of our nation’s defense through these challenging times. 100% of Praescient’s staff is considered Mission Essential and continues… Read more »
The federal government is changing the way it uses technology, moving towards more agile and distributed IT infrastructure. Some agencies have done a great job adopting emerging technology such as the Intelligence Community which has been at the forefront of federal cloud adoption. Cloud technology is evolving in a way that allows organizations to produce… Read more »
Praescient Employee Spotlight: Justin Aquino Cooking made simpler, easier, and healthier with sous vide. Sous Vide Duck with red curry reduction sauce and a mint, cilantro, and pink peppercorn gremolata Cooking, to me, has always been a sanctuary. I find healing and respite in the way I get lost in the details while preparing or… Read more »
I Knew You Were Trouble: As the song goes, “I knew you were trouble when you walked in” accurately describes the situation when a potential defector in fact “walks in” to an American Embassy or military installation overseas. Certainly, defectors represent a large quantity of America’s most important spies. Pytor Popov and Oleg Penkovsky were… Read more »
Remember learning how to read and write? How about cursive or that dreaded year when you were forced to pick up Catcher in the Rye? If you’re reading this (and thank you in advance if you are), it is probably safe to say you’ve attained some mastery of the English language. Mission accomplished, right? Well,… Read more »
Fusion Energy: an overview Everyone knows how nuclear energy works, at least traditionally. We split the atom, a process called nuclear fission, and began the nuclear age back in 1945. Despite the benefits derived from nuclear energy, accidents since like 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and most recently Fukushima have taught the public to fear nuclear… Read more »
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 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 »