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 »
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a non-partisan think tank based in DC, recently published a report entitled, Syria’s Armed Opposition, an in-depth look at the rebel movement in Syria that began last June. Author Joseph Holliday, Senior Analyst at ISW, provides solid analysis on the structure and capabilities of the insurgency, but… 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 »
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 »