Praescient Analysts have used crowdsourcing as a tried-and-true method for capturing and contextualizing information of all types. What comes next? Business Development Specialist, Connor Izzo, details how crowdsourcing can impact conflict.
In this week’s blog, Business Development Associate Max Margolis deep dives into Facial Recognition and emphasizes how this Machine Learning technology is assisting investigations and augmenting data analytics. Facial Recognition is a powerful, new emerging technology that is being rapidly adopted across law enforcement agencies. But as with any new piece of software, it has… Read more »
In this week’s blog, Business Development Specialist Katherine Lehner shares her experience with developing technical skills and how these skills have helped her in the business realm. Lehner Reflects on her Initial Exposure to the Tool: Coming into my first internship with virtually no technical skills, I decided to test out the Praescient i2… Read more »
John Randles, CEO of Siren, a key Praescient technology partner offering an advanced investigative intelligence platform, recently wrote an article for Intelligence Community News on the importance of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In the article, Randles makes the argument that in the information age, OSINT has become increasingly important to the intelligence community, matching the… Read more »
The problem with America is that there are too many donuts and not enough milk, and that really sucks. Seven years ago, I ate a donut that was too big for my mouth but I swallowed anyway. BIG mistake. I rushed for a glass of milk only to discover that it was empty. With no… Read more »
This week, we spoke with Praescient employees from three different generations, Baby Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z, to talk about the most surprising technical development that occurred within their lifetime and what they admire the most about their fellow Generational colleagues. See their responses and how certain technological advancements impacted their lives below! According to… Read more »
As the nationwide anti-police brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd continue throughout the streets of America, we are starting to see the beginnings of change on the legislative level. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, recently introduced police reform-focused legislation that would mandate several federal agencies to examine and confront law enforcement entities’… Read more »
The importance of cybersecurity has been talked about extensively ever since the internet became widespread. However, for a long time it was just talk and little action as far as the government was concerned. Maybe politicians who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s had a hard time understanding this new dimension of security or… Read more »
Esri’s Federal 2020 conference in DC ended just two weeks ago, and our PA delegation was well represented there. Organizations keen on the latest advancements in Geographic Intelligence (GEOINT) software, on the Esri platform gathered to show off their work using it, and to learn from others. The week was packed with demos for how… Read more »
The federal government has been deemed by many to be poorly equipped when it comes to some of its lingering technology. The use of legacy systems and hardware, essentially outdated technology and software, has become an increasing issue for a variety of departments and agencies, especially as it pertains to budgetary and security concerns. According… Read more »