The J2X team has decades of experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating complex risks for the US government and private corporations. Comprised of elite former military officers, federal law enforcement officers, and intelligence analysts, they specialize in areas such as supply chain risk, insider threat, due diligence, and geopolitical risk. They have helped organizations to minimize losses, de-risk global operations, identify emerging threats, and streamline security.

Combined with Adarga’s cutting-edge AI platform – built to enrich and accelerate intelligence outputs with state-of-the art information analysis capabilities – the J2X team’s unique skills and expertise will enhance Adarga’s existing risk intelligence services. They will also inform its continuously evolving product roadmap and reinforce Adarga’s competitive position in the market as it delivers organizational resilience to some of the world’s most demanding customers in the face of increasing competition.

The acquisition supports and accelerates Adarga’s expanding US growth, marked by recent contract wins with the defense and national security community. The combination of the two companies will deliver added value to J2X’s existing customers by leveraging Adarga’s technology and its proprietary curated data sets, enabling the team to rapidly interrogate, contextualize, and connect millions of global data points to derive valuable insight and foresight into near- and long-term threats.

“We are thrilled to integrate J2X’s leading capabilities with our robust products and services,” said Adarga CEO and founder Rob Bassett Cross. “This acquisition reinforces our commitment to delivering unrivalled excellence in information intelligence. Combining deep expertise and innovative technologies, underpinned by our state-of-the-art AI platform, will empower organizations across the UK, US and our allies with the foresight and clarity needed to navigate today’s complex geopolitical environment.”

“Joining forces with Adarga represents a significant milestone for J2X Solutions,” noted Chris Gore, J2X’s president. “Our longstanding commitment to providing strategic risk intelligence aligns perfectly with Adarga’s industry-leading approach to information analysis. Our combined strengths will deliver enhanced intelligence capabilities to our customers and enable them to counter an ever-growing number and range of threats.”

Source: Adarga

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Specializing in Sub-Saharan Africa, 14 North’s multinational experts are located across the continent and draw on decades of intelligence and diplomatic experience to deliver critical insight on one of the most complex regions in the world. Through Vantage, the 14 North team is harnessing proprietary information generated from previous research, insight from their on-the-ground network of human intelligence sources, and open-source data in multiple languages.

From fast, actionable insights to in-depth, longer-term research projects, 14 North analysts have been using Vantage to extend their capabilities by extracting, summarizing, and connecting information, as well as identifying themes and claims coming out of millions of sources. Fully evidenced outputs with links to source information ensures they can dig deeper and cover more ground but with full control over their assessments.

“Adarga Vantage is a game-changer. It enables us to draw insights from our extensive repository of past on-the-ground reporting. We also use Vantage to securely fuse insights from past reports with emerging open-source data. It’s a powerful combination that saves us time, driving efficiency, productivity, and quality of outputs,” said William Linder, 14 North’s CEO.

“We use Vantage to support most, if not all, of our analysis,” noted Avery Warfield, an analyst at 14 North, “We use the insights it generates as building blocks for our reports and as a means of determining the significance of specific information. This has increased our accuracy and saved us hours, most recently on a short-fuse requirement related to Burkina Faso.”

Vantage has been built to augment human intelligence, enabling users to offload the cognitive burden of time-consuming tasks such as information collection and processing so they can focus on critical analysis.  It enables analysts and planners to gain a rich picture of information from millions of sources in different languages and deliver dynamic insight and improved foresight to decision-makers.

Source: Adarga

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KBR’s Government Solutions business will integrate Adarga’s leading-edge AI software platform into the delivery of a number of its large-scale programs across the defense and national security sectors – putting effective, data-driven decision-making at the heart of how they operate.

The partnership will further extend KBR’s capability offering across key market sectors and accelerate the speed and scale at which organizations can adopt next generation AI analytics to resolve their most complex data challenges. It will also allow clients to unlock vital insight, foresight and understanding of information buried across their ever-growing data sets.

This insight allows customers to improve retention of critical institutional knowledge, identify hidden connections to drive intelligence-led investigation, support strategic planning, and quantify future threats and opportunities. The addition of AI enhances and extends human capability by increasing agility, accuracy and productivity.

“This partnership is an exciting step to enhance our innovative and highly dependable solutions focused approach across key markets, with a shared ethos to help our customers resolve their most complex challenges,” said Andrew Barrie, KBR President, Government Solutions EMEA.

Adarga’s UK-developed Knowledge Platform is built for rapid integration with partner programs and is already providing vital insights for the UK Ministry of Defence by driving faster, better and more informed decisions.

Adarga CEO, Robert Bassett Cross, said, “Adarga is pleased to be partnering with KBR to expand the AI capabilities of customers across defense and national security. Together we will be able to provide customers with a transformational ability to leverage data as a strategic asset – a vital element of modern defense capability.”

Source: KBR

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