Picture a vessel carrying thousands of pounds of narcotics toward U.S. shores. The ship runs with no transponder or electronic trace, slipping through open waters under cloud cover. Overhead, a network of advanced satellites capture every movement. Within minutes, automated systems fuse imagery, signals and open-source data, alerting analysts who can pinpoint the ship’s location and intercept it before it reaches land. That’s the kind of coordination national security leaders are striving to make routine, and it depends on the ability to turn data into clear, actionable insight. However, while the limiting factor used to be access to enough data, Nicholas Bousquet, vice president of strategy for the intelligence community at GRVTY, stated that national security leaders now face the challenge of navigating an influx. “What we’ve seen in the […]