Through its proprietary platform, MOSAICS, Madison Springfield sources and synthesizes global data across more than 155 countries, applying advanced techniques such as natural language processing, deep learning, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection. The platform continuously collects and processes unstructured, structured, online, and offline data from authorized sources, delivering cleansed, normalized datasets and high-confidence indicators. Its human-in-the-loop framework ensures ongoing model refinement and validation, delivering high reliability and accuracy in identifying emerging geopolitical threats and strategic opportunities.

Building on its history of expert-level analysis of challenging security problem sets—including violent extremism, malign foreign influence, and great power competition—Madison Springfield leverages commercially available information (CAI) and publicly available information (PAI) to develop data-driven strategies and recommendations that help clients accomplish their security objectives. The company also provides subject-matter experts across disciplines who work on-site at customer locations to support and implement operations. The firm’s rapidly growing predictive analytics business is a natural evolution of these established lines of effort.

Beyond its robust predictive analytics, Madison Springfield supports customers in developing and operationalizing strategies to mitigate risk and respond effectively to evolving global challenges through all-data sourcing at global scale, sharpened by targeted, mission-specific indicators. Alerts are delivered via secure dashboards and integration feeds, complete with confidence scoring, geospatial context, link analysis, and recommended courses of action fast enough to change outcomes. Anywhere our customers operate, Culmen will now be able to provide multi-cloud or on-prem/air-gapped solutions, aligned to security and compliance requirements.

“This acquisition provides Culmen access to a powerful analytics platform and a portfolio of highly valued public sector and international clients,” said Culmen CEO Dan Berkon. “Our companies share a deep commitment to employee welfare, superior customer relationship management, and laser focus on our client mission success. These are the values that make this partnership a natural fit.”

Mark Dumas, Culmen’s chief strategy officer and vice president of the technology, research, and analytics Division, added, “The MOSAICS platform enables Culmen and our clients to anticipate and respond to geopolitical developments with increased precision and agility. Integrating this technology will further enhance our ability to support strategic decision-making in complex operating environments.”

Madison Springfield CEO Timothy Riesen, PhD stated, “Joining Culmen provides our team with the global infrastructure, technical depth, and operational support to further scale our impact. We look forward to advancing our mission together and delivering even greater value to our clients.”

Source: Culmen International

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The prototype award is designed to improve CDAO’s ability to identify key trends and topics related to potential foreign adversarial areas of interest, enabling faster and more informed assessments of media data vital to national security. VANE was created to contrive clarity in multi-domain environments for military and government applications by aggregating and analyzing vast data points, enabling predictions of adversarial activity in complex situations.

“We are honored to continue our support in the modernization of our nation’s defense efforts. This award underscores the importance of leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to address complicated geopolitical challenges,” said Ryan Legge, president of national security at BigBear.ai. “By advancing VANE within CDAO, we are arming our warfighters with sophisticated intelligence capabilities to leverage foreign insights critical to the safety of our Nation and those protecting it.”

VANE was initially developed in partnership with the Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD). Additionally, VANE received “awardable” status on the CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace in April 2024. Advancing to CDAO marks a successful transition from a research prototype to an operational prototype, providing critical insights to decision-makers. The contract involves a transition plan, which aims for a future deployment on CDAO’s Advana environment, enabling a broader audience across the DoD’s Combatant Commands to access the advanced AI capability.

Source: BigBear.ai

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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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