The U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) operates in a dynamic threat environment characterized by global terrorism, transnational crime, and changing political and economic conditions, all of which drive increasing volumes and complexity of cross-border activity. To meet these challenges, USBP prioritizes enhanced intelligence and data-driven capabilities to generate timely, accurate, and actionable information that enables the identification, disruption, and dismantlement of threat networks. These capabilities include tools, data services, and related technologies that support the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of information derived from a broad range of sources, including publicly available information.

Within this environment, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) capabilities play a critical role in leveraging publicly available information to support intelligence production, targeting, and vetting. USBP must be able to collect, triage, process, and analyze large volumes of publicly available information and integrate OSINT-derived insights with other intelligence and law enforcement information, while ensuring that the use of OSINT remains consistent with applicable laws, policies, and oversight requirements.

Separately, the USBP Strategic Collaboration Group (SCG) leads the identification, piloting, and evaluation of advanced technology solutions, such as those supporting vehicle identification and tracking, digital media exploitation, radio frequency signal detection and geolocation, maritime domain awareness, vehicle counter-surveillance, and AI-enabled analytic workflows to enhance situational awareness and agent safety. As the volume, variety, and velocity of available data continue to grow, SCG must ensure that these technology pilots and related capabilities can effectively exploit emerging data sources and technologies in support of USBP’s mission.

To maximize the effectiveness of its intelligence and technology capabilities, the USBP requires a deliberate and coordinated approach to the planning, governance, and integration of these capabilities, ensuring they are fully aligned with broader intelligence and operational priorities. The USBP Headquarters Intelligence Division (INTEL) requires program management support to strengthen its ability to efficiently acquire, implement, and sustain platforms and tools that enhance analytic tradecraft, improve targeting and vetting workflows, and increase the speed and quality of intelligence support to operations that protect the homeland.

Review the USBP intelligence RFI.

Source: SAM

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“We are proud to partner with Carahsoft to expand access to our targeted cyber intelligence solutions across the public sector,” said Jim McKee, CEO at Red Sky Alliance. “Carahsoft’s deep relationships and expertise in serving government agencies allow us to deliver REDXRAY and CTAC to the organizations that need proactive, actionable threat intelligence the most. Together, we can help federal, state and local agencies strengthen their cyber defenses, reduce risk and better protect the critical data and services their communities depend on.”

Red Sky Alliance’s advanced REDXRAY and Cyber Threat Analysis Center (CTAC) solutions deliver proactive, targeted cyber threat intelligence designed to stop breaches before they occur. REDXRAY provides government agencies with daily Cyber Threat Scores and real-time notifications of threats to their networks, supply chains and critical assets by leveraging proprietary collections, dark web monitoring and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to deliver actionable intelligence. Acting as a force multiplier, REDXRAY enables a single analyst to monitor multiple departments while meeting compliance standards such as NIST 800-171, CMMC and HIPAA.

Complementing this capability, CTAC provides full access to Red Sky Alliance’s extensive historical datasets through OpenSearch Dashboards and API feeds, empowering analysts to conduct custom queries, accelerating investigations, reducing manual workload and strengthening enterprise-wide cyber defense. Together, these solutions help public sector organizations lower risk, protect sensitive citizen and patient data, prevent costly ransomware disruptions and make informed cybersecurity decisions with clear, AI-assisted reporting.

“Carahsoft’s new partnership with Red Sky Alliance brings its advanced cyber threat intelligence capabilities to the public sector,” said Natalie Gregory, vice president for DevSecOps solutions at Carahsoft. “REDXRAY and CTAC provide government teams with proactive visibility into emerging threats and actionable intelligence that strengthens cybersecurity posture across departments and supply chains. Through this collaboration, Carahsoft and its reseller partners are helping public sector organizations better protect sensitive data, maintain compliance and defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber adversaries.”

Source: Carahsoft

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The Department’s Executive Protection Unit requires access to a cloud-based, externally hosted Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and digital threat monitoring platform capable of aggregating, correlating, and analyzing publicly available information to provide continuous, real-time threat identification and alerting in support of protective intelligence and executive protection operations.

The platform shall enable continuous monitoring of potential threats to one (1) protected subject and include an assessment of the subject’s publicly exposed digital footprint, associated assets, and upcoming travel, with scalable options to incorporate additional protected subjects as operational requirements evolve.

The solution must provide the Protective Intelligence team with the capability to proactively identify, assess, and monitor potential threats across social media platforms, digital and traditional media sources, surface web content, deep web forums, and dark web environments that may impact the protected subject across multiple areas of responsibility.

Review the DoC OINS sources sought notice.

Source: SAM

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“Vertosoft is committed to bringing innovative and mission-critical technologies to the public sector,” said Josh Slattery, VP of tech sales at Vertosoft. “This partnership ultimately strengthens public sector access to connected, proactive security technologies and ensures agencies have the tools required for today’s modern threat landscape.”

“The Ontic Platform enables federal security teams to uncover and investigate emerging threats, connect and assess threat actors, triage incidents faster, and standardize reporting – all within a single, modern system,” said Zach Kebetz, director, federal at Ontic. “By partnering with Vertosoft, we’re expanding access to this connected, proactive intelligence so federal agencies can strengthen how they protect our nation’s people and operations.”

The Ontic Platform provides a centralized database to maintain high-value assets and known threats, always-on monitoring of OSINT, public records, social media, dark web, and more – all integrated with intuitive case management and investigation workflows. With Ontic, security leaders gain a 360-degree view of their threat landscape and the tools to act with confidence, the company said.

Source: Vertosoft

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As geopolitical tensions rise, and hybrid threats, combining cyber, physical, and informational tactics, impact both private and public sectors, organizations face increasing challenges from sophisticated adversaries. This partnership brings together two industry leaders to meet that challenge head-on. By integrating Flashpoint’s exclusive, human-augmented threat intelligence directly into Siren’s advanced investigative platform, teams gain the ability to detect, investigate, and respond to complex risks faster and with greater confidence.

Flashpoint’s curated, primary-source data provides unique depth and context, empowering investigators to initiate new inquiries and solve cases by uncovering hidden connections. Siren’s open architecture allows this intelligence to be combined with a broad range of OSINT and internal data sources, including social media, law enforcement records, cyber threat feeds, and blockchain analytics. The integrated solution offers a flexible, unified environment tailored to each organization’s needs, supporting various applications including public safety, fraud prevention, anti money laundering, and cryptocurrency crime.

This collaboration is especially timely as financial cyber threats and blockchain-related risks continue to escalate, as it delivers actionable insights to protect assets and maintain trust in an increasingly digital economy.

“By embedding Flashpoint’s uniquely curated, human-augmented intelligence into Siren’s workflows, we’re delivering an end-to-end solution that accelerates investigations and generates actionable insights with unmatched speed and precision,” said Rachel Kavanagh, CMO of Siren.

“In a world of increasingly sophisticated and converging threats, the ability to access and action comprehensive intelligence is paramount,” stated Andrew Borene, Flashpoint Executive Director for International Markets and Global Security. “This integration delivers on that need. Combining Flashpoint’s unmatched collections with Siren’s investigative power gives multinational organizations a more actionable view of their risk landscape.”

Source: Siren

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PAI is information found in public sources, whether in print media, online platforms, social media, public records, websites, blogs, forums, imagery, and videos. OSINT refers to the process of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating publicly available data points to support decision-making.

Being able to rapidly analyze PAI offers public and private sector organizations access to accurate and actionable information in markets frequently disrupted by political turmoil and economic instability. However, information overload can overwhelm even the most well-resourced organizations, making it increasingly difficult for analysts and end users to quickly surface the most valuable insights and make critical decisions.

Small Data refers to the amount of information that a human can process, combining precision data points to get the right answer. Tadaweb augments human analysts’ Small Data skills with an Operating System enhanced by AI that brings together a suite of products to integrate seamlessly with third-party web tools and APIs, ingesting data from PAI, commercially available information, and emerging sources.

While most solutions focus solely on automation and Big Data, Tadaweb flips the model, with a solution that reduces investigation time to insight from days to minutes. This problem is widely understood in the market, and thus Tadaweb is trusted and adopted by analysts of varying levels of expertise.

As a result, Tadaweb users are better equipped to meet mission-critical priorities, from reducing fraud and identifying potential threats, to minimizing supply chain disruptions and mitigating financial losses. The company’s customers include government agencies in defense, national security and public safety across Europe and the US, as well as private sector cyber threat intelligence and corporate security organizations.

Francois Gaspard, chief executive officer and co-founder of Tadaweb, said: “Our mission is to make the world safer by empowering the human mind with the right information at the right time. Almost everyone is looking to AI for a solution. Our focus is on transparency, not delivering another black box. We embrace AI, while ensuring our solution keeps the human in control. True impact comes from putting humans in the center. By augmenting analysts with our Small Data Operating System, we’re doing just that.”

Arsenal Growth and Forgepoint Capital International led the investment, with participation from existing investor Wendel. Both Jason Rottenberg, General Partner at Arsenal Growth, and Damien Henault, Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital International, will join the Tadaweb board. The capital will advance the company’s momentum, supporting product development and recruiting top talent as Tadaweb continues its worldwide expansion and go-to-market across public and private sectors.

Jason Rottenberg, co-founder and general partner at Arsenal Growth, said, “Tadaweb has built a genuinely human-centric Operating System that is solely focused on making analysts dramatically more productive. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate its customers’ ability to harness the vast opportunities of OSINT, irrespective of their sector focus, with an ambitious team that is building an extraordinary company.”

Damien Henault, managing director at Forgepoint Capital International, said, “Many players claim to help organizations with OSINT, but they offer a set of features, not a fully integrated end-to-end platform. Three things attracted us to Tadaweb and how its Operating System helps analysts be more productive: its Small Data approach combined with a unique low/no-code visual query engine, the way it prioritizes the human analyst, not the data, and its hyper-focused management team committed to delivering value for its customers.”

Source: Tadaweb

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By joining the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, Primer expands its ability to deliver AI-powered tools to mission-driven organizations across government and private sector enterprises.

Primer’s AI platform integrates seamlessly into secure workflows and existing systems, enabling users to extract insights from vast volumes of unstructured data. Purpose-built for environments where speed, accuracy, and security are non-negotiable, the platform combines real-time data processing and secure system integration to facilitate planning, enhance situational awareness, and optimize operational decisions.

Key capabilities include AI-powered search, real-time OSINT analysis, automated summaries and visualizations, rapid insight delivery, and secure deployment, Primer said.

“Joining the AWS ISV Accelerate Program enables us to collaborate with AWS field sellers worldwide,” said Robert Matney, vice president of global strategic partnerships at Primer Technologies. “This enhances our ability to deliver trusted, transformational AI capabilities to organizations that rely on fast, informed decision-making in high-stakes environments.”

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The yearbook highlights 14 articles published by NGA’s Tearline Project providing open-source intelligence on topics like Russian oil and gas activities in North Africa, Chinese infrastructure investments in Namibia and railroad construction in Kazakhstan.

One article examines the operating status of a North Korean prison camp for political prisoners. North Korea officials publicly announced closing 20 years ago; however, the authors used current satellite imagery and interviews with former detainees to reveal the camp is still active.

NGA’s Tearline Project, a congressionally supported publication platform, is an ongoing series of collaborations with academia and non-profit groups to create public-facing, open-source intelligence on various strategic, economic and humanitarian intelligence topics that are under-reported. The project supplies open-source intelligence for NGA, federal partner agencies and the public usage to support and assist in the agency’s mission.

Learn more about Tearline, including how to propose a research topic.

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The OSINT Foundation honors intelligence community organizations and individuals who champion open-source tools and tradecraft in support of national security. Senior leaders from the FBI, CIA and U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command attended the ceremony.

The Product of the Year Award recognizes a finished, unclassified and publicly available open-source intelligence product that demonstrated exceptional value to the nation, provided substantial impact to the organization’s mission and benefited the public good by increasing the public’s understanding of the value of OSINT.

The foundation was especially impressed with how the product’s “compelling narrative” broke down a complex, highly technical issue with exhaustive footnotes into an intuitive product that speaks to all readers regardless of intelligence community affiliation.

The unclassified booklet includes a timeline of the growing relationship between Russia and North Korea, background on the North Korean missile program and highlighted systems Pyongyang provided to Russia. It also visually compares missiles depicted in North Korean state media with missile debris from Ukraine, making the case that Russia is using North Korean missiles.

Source: DIA

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FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI), Information Technology Section (ITS) is seeking vendor supported OSINT tools and services that collect Publicly Available Information (PAI) and / or Commercially Available Information (CAI) from the internet and social media platforms. Responses to this RFI may be used to formulate final requirements and/or to identify qualified vendors capable of meeting those requirements. The description outlines preliminary capabilities envisioned for the FBI’s Open-Source Intelligence Tools Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, hereafter referred as OSINT IDIQ. Responses to the RFI should include detailed information on potential software and products and how the FBI could best implement them, as well as potential costs for implementation (e.g., licensing prices). The FBI may request demonstrations of proposed products and solutions after responses are received.

DI of the FBI manages the Social Media Program, providing tools and training to assist Headquarters Divisions and Field Offices in conducting Social Media research and searches nationwide. The DI Social Media Program ensures that users have tools required to search for internet threats, and that users complete privacy and civil liberties training to perform these searches in accordance with applicable federal laws, regulations, and policy.

The objective of the RFI is to survey the landscape of Social Media and OSINT tools that exist across the market and meet the capabilities set forth below. The FBI is looking both at major OSINT collection systems and smaller systems that may contain focused information collection capabilities. Ultimately the FBI intends to develop a storefront of approved tools by leveraging the Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type of contract vehicle with resources that align with the needs, requirements, and specifications for FBI use.

Review the FBI OSINT RFI.

Source: SAM

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