National Security analysis encompasses one of the largest communities of practice within government. We strive to provide viable options to mitigate and manage threats to security, no matter what the environment or rules of engagement. Our forte is threat finance intelligence and counter threat finance operations. Regardless of the domain, insurgency or terrorism, proliferation, espionage, or trafficking, we have conducted collection, analysis, and course of action development to meet sustained interdiction efforts globally. Using traditional intelligence methodologies coupled with financial forensic analytical techniques as well as emerging multi-discipline tradecraft, our efforts have successfully identified, tracked, and engaged hostile actors to stop threat activities.

We excel in countering a wide range of activities from narcotics, human, technology, natural resources, and intellectual property trafficking analysis to counter-terrorism. Using a wide variety of methods and techniques, we identify, track, and defeat individuals or organizations involved in the illicit trafficking of value. Our ability to use national and international laws and conventions we provide options to decision makers with the best possible approach to mitigate, interdict, and disrupt hostile actions throughout the range of national security threats.

Using all the tools at our disposal, we evaluate structured and unstructured data with a deep understanding of human research subject protection (HRSP) and the processes involved with Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight. Our experience focuses on understanding the needs distressed populations found in disaster or conflict zones. We are pioneers in the field of High Risk Ethnography (HRE), a sub-specialty of anthropology. We have deep experience supporting research under dangerous and demanding conditions to make sense of emerging issues that impact the local, regional, and global community. Trailblazers in the field of HRE technical analysis and data management, we have provided support for rapid sense-making to develop time relevant, effective and actionable responses to real human need during conflicts and disasters.

Our analysts have engaged in countering violent extremism by developing an understanding of the factors and motivations behind groups and individuals. Our expertise can help mitigate the risks posed by violent extremism. The use of the Internet, social media, and information technology has increased the complexity of CVE analysis but has also allowed for the use of sophisticated technical resources to assist social scientist in understanding a phenomena as it develops and matures.

Our work in the business community focuses on the development and implementation of ontologies and taxonomies. An ontology is a formal way of organizing information. The main goal of ontology development is to produce useful, contextual, rich, current, complete, and interoperable data organization. The value of our work to a business is to make or save money. The use of semantic technologies in general enables the use of intelligent, flexible, and maintainable enterprise applications contributing to the business value by lowering operational costs and increasing productivity.

A key capability resulting from our work is the ability to mine text information in an organized comprehensive fashion. Text mining is the analysis of data contained in natural language text to solve business problems. Text mining can help an organization derive valuable business insights from text-based content such as word documents, email and postings on social media streams. Mining unstructured data is challenging! Information inherently contains ambiguities caused by inconsistent syntax and semantics, language specific to an industry or age group, and colloquial variations within demographic subsets. Our objective is to cut through the morass to extract only the necessary data.