Built for the realities of modern operations, Identifi enables Special Operations Forces to verify identities and assess threats securely and instantly entirely on-device, without network dependency. The system fuses multiple biometric modalities into a compact, rugged platform designed to perform when and where other technologies cannot.

“This milestone represents years of partnership with Special Operations Forces to deliver technology that works when and where they need it most,” said Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology. “Identifi gives operators the power to make faster, more confident decisions in the field and strengthens the safety of every mission it supports.”

Developed hand-in-hand with the SOF user community and the USSOCOM program office, Identifi reflects an operator-first design philosophy: fast to learn, resilient under pressure, and built for the tempo of real-world missions. The system integrates seamlessly into existing Special Operations workflows, delivering the speed, security, and interoperability required for modern identity intelligence operations.

“Becoming a Program of Record validates the trust SOCOM has placed in our team and technology,” said Noëlle Tuss, director of defense strategy at Reveal. “Identifi ensures that biometric identification and verification remain accessible, secure, and mission-ready across the spectrum of operations.”

Source: Reveal Technology

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Anomaly Six brings a mature suite of commercially derived intelligence tools used to map global digital activity, understand connectivity networks, and analyze operational behaviors.  These capabilities directly complement Reveal’s Farsight geospatial platform and Identifi human terrain solution, allowing operators to correlate physical location data with behavioral patterns and network relationships in real time. Together, the companies are delivering one of the few platforms purpose-built for the tactical edge, unifying physical, human, and digital terrain into a single operational capability.

“This acquisition reinforces our vision to position Reveal as the rare intelligence provider delivering layered, tactically-relevant intelligence at the point of decision,” said Garrett Smith, chief executive officer and co-founder of Reveal Technology. “We take very seriously the needs of tactical decision makers, and they need our depth across intelligence, autonomy, and decision-support capabilities, at the speed of tactical relevance.  By integrating Anomaly Six’s intelligence capabilities with Reveal’s other products – Farsight and Identifi – we’re establishing Reveal as the digital arms room for the modern warrior across all tactical intelligence domains.”

Led by teams with deep military and intelligence experience, both veteran-founded companies understand how intelligence is operationalized. As global threats evolve, the acquisition unifies previously disconnected intelligence streams into a single environment, enabling faster decisions and eliminating the friction of complex integrations.

“Seven years ago, we founded Anomaly Six with a singular focus on solving complex global defense and intelligence challenges through best-in-class commercial capabilities,” said Jeff Heinz, co-founder of Anomaly Six. “By joining forces with Reveal Technology, we are not only sustaining commitment to our partners in the defense, intelligence, and commercial communities, but also accelerating our ability to deliver. This partnership allows us to combine our capabilities into a broader ecosystem allowing us to put mission-critical information directly into the hands of the warfighter and those operating at the tactical edge.”

Source: Reveal Technology

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From IC Insider Alteryx

By Andrew MacIsaac, Director, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector, Alteryx, Inc.

The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik in 1957 ushered in an era of space exploration that saw both the USSR and the United States double down on their efforts to explore what Gene Roddenberry’s character, Captain Kirk, describes as “the Final Frontier.” President John F. Kennedy accelerated the national focus on space in the 1960’s, calling for the United States to put a person on the moon by the end of the decade.

From that first moonshot to NASA’s successful landing of the Perseverance on Mars in 2021, space has remained a priority for the United States. What has changed is the new technological capabilities other countries and private organizations have acquired for launching spacecraft and satellites into orbit for scientific exploration, communications, intelligence gathering, and even recreational space travel. But what do these advancements mean for us here on Earth?

 A New Approach to Data Analytics Needed

According to a recent article in Space News, we are in the midst of another space race. Organizations like the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) maintain a lead in the “geoint” race. But with China investing in advanced Low Earth Orbit (LEOs) satellites that can revisit any point on the globe within 30 minutes, agencies like NGA “need new approaches for handling big data and for delivering information to customers faster.”

As the article points out, the key to managing this ever-growing data flow is automation and achieving maximum interoperability between systems. Efficiently managing the extreme influx of data is just the starting point for intelligence organizations like NGA as agencies undertake digital transformation efforts. Agencies are evolving from viewing data analyzed by human analysts, to applying advanced analytics that improve situational awareness and accurately predict events. Big data challenges — similarly facing DOD, I.C.-related, and civilian agencies — require solutions that deliver data agility, unified analytics, and the ability to easily deploy predictive analytics in near real-time.

Near real-time delivery of information is not possible without high-speed analytics and high-volume throughputs across systems. Deploying a higher level of Analytic Process Automation (APA) with predictive modeling capabilities democratizes the ability to harness and leverage vast data from numerous sources, including geospatial and satellite imagery.

Recently, Alteryx partner, Reveal Global Consulting, shared a use case where the U.S. Census Bureau is turning to the use of analytic automation and satellite imagery to speed up the creation of insights that feed key economic indicators.

Economic Insights Require Quality Data

“As we advance into the 21^st Century, we are experiencing increased demand for our data, struggling with challenges to traditional data collection methods, and exploring rich new data sources and tools that can revolutionize what we do and how we do it. Our success critically depends on our ability to seize the opportunities in front of us to deliver statistical products that address increasingly complex and diverse needs of our users.”

—Ron Jarmin, Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau

Most Americans are familiar with the U.S. Census Bureau given its role in surveying every person for the “Decennial Census of Population and Housing.” People may not know that the Census Bureau, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the nation’s leading provider of quality data about the economy.

Mandated by law, Census collects, analyzes, and reports actionable data about people, places, and the health of the economy to Congress; the White House Office of Management and Budget; federal, state, and local government agencies; news organizations; businesses; and the public. For example, Census data, research findings, and key indicators are used to:

• Assess the health of the U.S. economy
• Allocate funding for new roads and schools
• Define voting districts
• Provide services for the elderly
• Locate job training centers
• Qualify people for social security
• Assess construction spending and activity
• Audit disaster recovery spending

Data as a Strategic, High-Value Asset

Census data is one of our most valuable national assets. It must be accurate, timely, protected, and used wisely to effectively allocate over $675 billion in federal funding to states, local communities, and businesses.

For the past several decades, Census has relied heavily on burdensome manual processes and outdated tools to collect, process, analyze, and report data on the population, housing, businesses, workforce, public finance, resources used, etc. The sheer volume, velocity, and veracity of Census’ big data is hard to manage with legacy systems. Manual surveying and data processing are labor-intensive, tedious, and costly.

Analytic Automation Enables Insights on Construction Indicators

As part of its digital transformation efforts, U.S. Census Bureau Economic Indicators Division, Construction Programs, contracted Reveal Global Consulting to design, build, and deploy modernized and automated approaches for data collection, analysis, and dissemination that reduce operational costs while improving the accuracy and quality of Census economic indicators. Specifically, Census wanted an advanced analytics and process automation solution to compile and release U.S. economic indicator data worldwide that would meet specific requirements and achieve tangible goals:

• Eliminate redundant data entry
• Streamline the indicator release process
• Create a consistent look and feel for the indicators’ website
• Prevent early release of indicators
• Maintain security of indicator information
• Re-use existing systems rather than create new ones
• Use enterprise systems for their primary purposes
• Use a loosely coupled architecture
• Use existing security infrastructure
• Minimize changes to established business processes
• Refactor code rather than rewrite it
• Improve the quality of Census data products
• Prioritize security over performance

A Unified Approach to Analytics

The U.S. Construction Indicator use case required an end-to-end solution with a robust Analytic Process Automation (APA) platform at its core. APA eliminates data analysis barriers by unifying multiple tools into one platform that provides end-to-end, self-service analytics across big data management prep, analytics and data science, and process automation to accelerate insights and actions.

Working directly with the client, Reveal built an advanced analytics and visualization solution for Census that enables the following:

• Modernizes construction industry indicators (housing starts, residential and non-residential construction spending, and others)
• Identifies alternative sources of data to reduce reliance on surveys
• Leverages advanced analytics and automates processes to optimize performance
• Provides advanced analytics and data visualization to provide Census users and external stakeholders with timely, relevant insights for optimal decision-making
• Uses A.I. to analyze satellite image data showing construction activity over time

The solution collects, filters, formats, and aggregates unstructured data from numerous Census and third-party sources. The data is ingested into the Alteryx APA Platform which, in turn, enables the creation and scheduling of workflows that can collect satellite imagery and automate analysis using geospatial and AI/ML capabilities to validate, compile, and create more accurate and timely construction indicator insight. Data utilized includes:

• Third-party U.S. permit data for residential single-family homes
• Web-scraped jurisdiction websites and PDFs
• Census shapefiles for every U.S. state
• Satellite images of construction sites show pre-construction and post-construction

Once trained, the analytic solution automates critical functions, including the ability to:

• Filter, format, and aggregate data from multiple sources
• Map and perform geospatial analysis
• Evaluate third-party data coverage and evaluate for accuracy
• Schedule, prompt, and collect CNN Model Classifications
• Evaluate and aggregate image classifications
• Merge third-party construction data and image classifications
• Create visualizations
• Automate the updating of Construction Indicator insights

 Analytics Automation: Accelerating the Quality of Insights

With analytics automation, agencies like the U.S. Census can create, acquire, leverage new data sources, and provide higher quality service offerings and products to end-users. By reducing the need for manual field data collection, aggregation, and other preprocessing efforts, the analytics automation capability enabled by Alteryx and Reveal is accelerating the quality and accuracy of insights on construction activity and is improving organizational flexibility and operational efficiency by allowing the Census resources to focus on high-value tasks.

Want to learn more about how Reveal Global Consulting and Alteryx partner to deliver a unified automated analytics capability that reduces manual processes around prepping, blending, and analyzing data, including the automatic creation of geospatial insights from satellite imagery?

Watch our brief video conversation with Reveal.

About Alteryx, Inc.

Revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, Alteryx offers an end-to-end analytics platform that empowers data analysts and scientists alike to break data barriers, deliver insights, and experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. Organizations all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver actionable insights. For more information, visit www.alteryx.com.

Alteryx is a registered trademark of Alteryx, Inc.

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By Andrew MacIsaac, Director, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector, Alteryx, Inc.

The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik in 1957 ushered in an era of space exploration that saw both the USSR and the United States double down on their efforts to explore what Gene Roddenberry’s character, Captain Kirk, describes as “the Final Frontier.” President John F. Kennedy accelerated the national focus on space in the 1960’s, calling for the United States to put a person on the moon by the end of the decade.

From that first moonshot to NASA’s successful landing of the Perseverance on Mars in 2021, space has remained a priority for the United States. What has changed is the new technological capabilities other countries and private organizations have acquired for launching spacecraft and satellites into orbit for scientific exploration, communications, intelligence gathering, and even recreational space travel. But what do these advancements mean for us here on Earth?

 A New Approach to Data Analytics Needed

According to a recent article in Space News, we are in the midst of another space race. Organizations like the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) maintain a lead in the “geoint” race. But with China investing in advanced Low Earth Orbit (LEOs) satellites that can revisit any point on the globe within 30 minutes, agencies like NGA “need new approaches for handling big data and for delivering information to customers faster.”

As the article points out, the key to managing this ever-growing data flow is automation and achieving maximum interoperability between systems. Efficiently managing the extreme influx of data is just the starting point for intelligence organizations like NGA as agencies undertake digital transformation efforts. Agencies are evolving from viewing data analyzed by human analysts, to applying advanced analytics that improve situational awareness and accurately predict events. Big data challenges — similarly facing DOD, I.C.-related, and civilian agencies — require solutions that deliver data agility, unified analytics, and the ability to easily deploy predictive analytics in near real-time.

Near real-time delivery of information is not possible without high-speed analytics and high-volume throughputs across systems. Deploying a higher level of Analytic Process Automation (APA) with predictive modeling capabilities democratizes the ability to harness and leverage vast data from numerous sources, including geospatial and satellite imagery.

Recently, Alteryx partner, Reveal Global Consulting, shared a use case where the U.S. Census Bureau is turning to the use of analytic automation and satellite imagery to speed up the creation of insights that feed key economic indicators.

Economic Insights Require Quality Data

“As we advance into the 21^st Century, we are experiencing increased demand for our data, struggling with challenges to traditional data collection methods, and exploring rich new data sources and tools that can revolutionize what we do and how we do it. Our success critically depends on our ability to seize the opportunities in front of us to deliver statistical products that address increasingly complex and diverse needs of our users.”

—Ron Jarmin, Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau

Most Americans are familiar with the U.S. Census Bureau given its role in surveying every person for the “Decennial Census of Population and Housing.” People may not know that the Census Bureau, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the nation’s leading provider of quality data about the economy.

Mandated by law, Census collects, analyzes, and reports actionable data about people, places, and the health of the economy to Congress; the White House Office of Management and Budget; federal, state, and local government agencies; news organizations; businesses; and the public. For example, Census data, research findings, and key indicators are used to:

• Assess the health of the U.S. economy
• Allocate funding for new roads and schools
• Define voting districts
• Provide services for the elderly
• Locate job training centers
• Qualify people for social security
• Assess construction spending and activity
• Audit disaster recovery spending

Data as a Strategic, High-Value Asset

Census data is one of our most valuable national assets. It must be accurate, timely, protected, and used wisely to effectively allocate over $675 billion in federal funding to states, local communities, and businesses.

For the past several decades, Census has relied heavily on burdensome manual processes and outdated tools to collect, process, analyze, and report data on the population, housing, businesses, workforce, public finance, resources used, etc. The sheer volume, velocity, and veracity of Census’ big data is hard to manage with legacy systems. Manual surveying and data processing are labor-intensive, tedious, and costly.

Analytic Automation Enables Insights on Construction Indicators

As part of its digital transformation efforts, U.S. Census Bureau Economic Indicators Division, Construction Programs, contracted Reveal Global Consulting to design, build, and deploy modernized and automated approaches for data collection, analysis, and dissemination that reduce operational costs while improving the accuracy and quality of Census economic indicators. Specifically, Census wanted an advanced analytics and process automation solution to compile and release U.S. economic indicator data worldwide that would meet specific requirements and achieve tangible goals:

• Eliminate redundant data entry
• Streamline the indicator release process
• Create a consistent look and feel for the indicators’ website
• Prevent early release of indicators
• Maintain security of indicator information
• Re-use existing systems rather than create new ones
• Use enterprise systems for their primary purposes
• Use a loosely coupled architecture
• Use existing security infrastructure
• Minimize changes to established business processes
• Refactor code rather than rewrite it
• Improve the quality of Census data products
• Prioritize security over performance

A Unified Approach to Analytics

The U.S. Construction Indicator use case required an end-to-end solution with a robust Analytic Process Automation (APA) platform at its core. APA eliminates data analysis barriers by unifying multiple tools into one platform that provides end-to-end, self-service analytics across big data management prep, analytics and data science, and process automation to accelerate insights and actions.

Working directly with the client, Reveal built an advanced analytics and visualization solution for Census that enables the following:

• Modernizes construction industry indicators (housing starts, residential and non-residential construction spending, and others)
• Identifies alternative sources of data to reduce reliance on surveys
• Leverages advanced analytics and automates processes to optimize performance
• Provides advanced analytics and data visualization to provide Census users and external stakeholders with timely, relevant insights for optimal decision-making
• Uses A.I. to analyze satellite image data showing construction activity over time

The solution collects, filters, formats, and aggregates unstructured data from numerous Census and third-party sources. The data is ingested into the Alteryx APA Platform which, in turn, enables the creation and scheduling of workflows that can collect satellite imagery and automate analysis using geospatial and AI/ML capabilities to validate, compile, and create more accurate and timely construction indicator insight. Data utilized includes:

• Third-party U.S. permit data for residential single-family homes
• Web-scraped jurisdiction websites and PDFs
• Census shapefiles for every U.S. state
• Satellite images of construction sites show pre-construction and post-construction

Once trained, the analytic solution automates critical functions, including the ability to:

• Filter, format, and aggregate data from multiple sources
• Map and perform geospatial analysis
• Evaluate third-party data coverage and evaluate for accuracy
• Schedule, prompt, and collect CNN Model Classifications
• Evaluate and aggregate image classifications
• Merge third-party construction data and image classifications
• Create visualizations
• Automate the updating of Construction Indicator insights

 Analytics Automation: Accelerating the Quality of Insights

With analytics automation, agencies like the U.S. Census can create, acquire, leverage new data sources, and provide higher quality service offerings and products to end-users. By reducing the need for manual field data collection, aggregation, and other preprocessing efforts, the analytics automation capability enabled by Alteryx and Reveal is accelerating the quality and accuracy of insights on construction activity and is improving organizational flexibility and operational efficiency by allowing the Census resources to focus on high-value tasks.

Want to learn more about how Reveal Global Consulting and Alteryx partner to deliver a unified automated analytics capability that reduces manual processes around prepping, blending, and analyzing data, including the automatic creation of geospatial insights from satellite imagery?

Watch our brief video conversation with Reveal.

About Alteryx, Inc.

Revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, Alteryx offers an end-to-end analytics platform that empowers data analysts and scientists alike to break data barriers, deliver insights, and experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. Organizations all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver actionable insights. For more information, visit www.alteryx.com.

Alteryx is a registered trademark of Alteryx, Inc.

About IC Insiders

IC Insiders is a special sponsored feature that provides deep-dive analysis, interviews with IC leaders, perspective from industry experts, and more. Learn how your company can become an IC Insider.

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