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In 1990, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health teamed up to begin what would be referred to as the Human Genome Project (HGP), an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes of our species. Completed in April 2003 with a cost of over 3 billion dollars,… Read more »
As the U.S. Senate gears up for another political battle over the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, American businesses have already become anxious about the potential resource bonanza that may await them in the Extended Continental Shelf. Under customary international law, as reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention, every coastal… Read more »
The following post was written by one of Praescient’s Advanced Analysis Fellows, a former marine biologist who is working with the Initiatives Group, and articulates how traditional research and analysis techniques can be (and ought to be) applied across disciplines to support special projects. The Initiatives Group is a collective of thought-leaders, subject matter experts,… Read more »
For millennia our data has existed much in the same manner, two dimensionally. Certainly, over time we have found better ways to display, sort, and interact with information, but it nonetheless has always existed external to our world. For example, an individual picks up a newspaper and reads about the event that occurred near his/her… Read more »
Praescient was founded by a group of former military officers, software engineers, and entrepreneurs with a common passion for analysis. Many of us have deployed to combat zones, others have fought corruption from the halls of academia, and still others have made their mark across the hills of Hollywood. As a team, we value a… Read more »
Many organizations, with varying mission sets and strategic objectives, face the challenge of optimizing the use of large data sets. Data is information, and information is power (as the saying goes). However, having possession and control of a database, most likely compiled from disparate sources, does not lead easily to the efficient use and effective… 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 »
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 »