NGA’s Focus Forward Intelligence Mission
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has long relied on a range of technological tools to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) like commercial imaging, remote sensing and human […] More
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DHS’ Big Data Integration Challenge
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen recently traveled from Washington D.C. to New York with her senior team in tow, to announce the creation […] More
Staying Competitive in a Crowded Open Source World
Technological advancements in the past 30 years have in many ways democratized access to information and disrupted countless industries – from journalism to national security. […] More
Predicting the Future: Anticipating Security Events with Data Analytics
Is a future where people can be arrested for crimes they have not yet committed dystopian or utopian? While this scenario remains the fodder of […] More
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Predictive Analytics: A New Tool for the Intelligence Community
The world has seen an enormous surge in the amount of data available, particularly human-generated digital exhaust from our Internet and communications habits. But only […] More
Does Predictive Policing Work?
What if it were possible to predict where a crime took place before it actually occurred – even determining the identity of the culprit in […] More
The Clash over Social Media Data
The clash between the tech industry and the federal government over data access has become an enduring part of the national narrative about countering violent […] More
Choose Your Battles Wisely
Social media is a potentially powerful source of information for the Intelligence Community, but the tensions between the government and the tech industry have made […] More
A Bad Decision
The issue of government access to privately held data about American citizens is an important one, and the debate about privacy has expanded into the […] More