Over the past year and a half, Praescient has grown from a small team of individuals focused on a handful of clients to an international organization with well over one hundred employees. Our dedicated field personnel service a range of customers at law enforcement agencies, military deployments, and public policy institutes all over the globe…. Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang Academics at West Point’s Network Science Center recently published a paper introducing a new algorithm developed to help officials more effectively dismantle terrorist and insurgent networks. Their work focuses on how organizations regenerate their leadership cadres following an attack and argues that “shaping” networks to maximize network-wide centrality… Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang Gun violence has been a vexing problem for law enforcement and policy makers for decades. This is partially because of the difficulty of predicting which individuals will perpetrate the next mass shooting. Big data, however, could give us a way to objectively analyze this issue and find ways… Read more »
Film piracy is one of the largest economic threats to the US motion pictures industry, costing US movie studios over $6 billion a year and the global film industry more than $18 billion a year. About three-fifths of this loss is due to DVD piracy while the other two-fifths can be attributed to online piracy…. Read more »
In the past few years, Iran has used its cargo line, IRISL (Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines), to evade international trade sanctions in place to prevent the movement of illicit cargo to and from Iran. The shipping line has been blacklisted by the US, the EU, and the UN, but IRISL continues to use ships… Read more »
On this day, December 7, 1941, two waves of Japanese planes bombed the United States of America; 183 planes hit Ford Island and 170 planes hit the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i. This great nation suffered the loss of a total of 2,350 people. Also, a total of 9 ships were sunk, and 21… Read more »
The McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University is committed to advancing leadership based on security, economic opportunity, freedom and human dignity in the United States and around the world. To focus on innovative ways to overcome challenges in the fields of humanitarian affairs, human rights, and national security; the Institute started the… Read more »
Neil Armstrong, the American NASA scientist who was the first person to walk on the moon, once said, “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.” Not all employees at Praescient are Armstrong types. Praescient was founded by a group of former military leaders, software engineers and entrepreneurs who shared… Read more »
One does not typically associate intimate knowledge of financial systems with protecting national security. Increasingly, that very knowledge is becoming vital to the defense of the United States and its allies. Globalization and rapid advancements in technology have caused groups engaged in armed conflict and terrorism to radically shift their funding methods from direct contributions… Read more »
In anticipation of the upcoming Knowlton Project event on the strategies and tools necessary to counter threat finance, the Praescient Analytics team recently sat down for a discussion with Jeff Dressler, senior research analyst at the Institute for the Study of War and author of a series of definitive reports on the Pakistan-based terrorist group known as the Haqqani network…. Read more »